Conventional cotton agriculture is one of the most polluting crops in the world. Cotton covers 2.5% of the world's cultivated land, about 25 percent of all the world’s insecticides and more than 10 percent of pesticides are devoted solely to conventional cotton production.
Choosing organic products is an easy way to help protect yourself and our planet.
Organic cotton is better for the environment
Heavy pesticide use reduces biodiversity, disrupts ecosystems, and contaminates water supplies. To finish conventional cotton, hazardous chemicals (heavy metals, formaldehyde….) are used, many of which flow freely into streams and lakes without treatment, killing aquatic ecosystems. Organic cotton is grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides and GM.
Organic cotton is better for the health
Organic cotton helps babies who suffer with eczema because it doesn’t contain the finishing chemicals or pesticide residues found in conventional cotton. By avoiding toxic pesticides cotton farmers benefit by avoiding the associated health problems and deaths common in non-organic cotton production.
Organic cotton can help small farmers
Avoiding pesticides also reduces production costs and farmer debts.
