How can Jute save the World Environment?
The recent cyclones and flooding around the world are leading to consideration of bans on plastic bags out of environmental concerns and although this does not automatically favor jute, it does offer an opportunity for the fibre. The ‘green’ credentials of jute bags and fabrics are excellent. There is rapidly growing world wide awareness of environmental problems and of the need for sustainable development. The use of plastics in packaging and in man-made fibre textiles, are increasingly seen as part of the problem and not as part of the solution. There is very little that can be done in the face of replacing jute sacks through bulk handling except perhaps to focus on part of the distribution chain where sacks are more useful. Aggressive lobbying and publicity in favor of jute growers has been suggested as one means of raising public awareness of the replacement of jute sacks by bulk handling in the Cocoa and coffee trades. So far there has been little resolve by the jute industry be m
