Is cotton a green or environmentally friendly material?
Cotton is a sustainable material, grown naturally in areas which have been harvesting cotton for thousands of years. The cotton plant takes sunlight and converts it to fiber without intermediate processing steps. Wool takes 4 times the land to produce an equivalent amount of fiber as cotton. Silk takes 20 times the land to produce the equivalent amount of silk fiber. Fibers that are based on corn and bamboo also require intermediate processing and additional chemicals to create a rayon-type fiber which is still not a direct plant-based production of fiber.
