Why organic cotton clothes?
Well conventionally grown cotton has a huge negative effect on the environment and the people who are involved in growing and making the garments. By choosing organically grown cotton, the use of toxic chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides reduces causing less damage to the soil, water courses, and air and to the growers themselves. The use of pesticides has been documented to cause poisonings and even death to literally millions of people worldwide each year (PAN UK). The end user does not escape either, as pesticide residues have been found in the final garment and can cause skin sensitivity and irritation. Another good reason to choose organic cottonis that the dyes used will contain less harmful chemicals and in some instances be completely natural, which again reduces the pollution to the local environment, improves the working conditions of manufacturers and results in less chemicals being leached into water sources, the air and ground, more information… Fairly traded
