The Ecologist Tee Shirts
After following up a recent link from a post in this group, I signed up for a newsletter from The Ecologist. This morning I received an e-mail encouraging me to buy tee shirts made from organic cotton.
My response:
The tee shirts may be made from organic cotton (how reliable is the certification?) but cotton plants are notoriously thirsty and cotton farming has caused environmental disasters. Have you heard of the Aral Sea? Dyeing and bleaching cotton also uses vast amounts of water and causes pollution of rivers from factory outfalls.
Should you be encouraging people to buy yet more cotton tee shirts when they probably don’t wear all those they already have?
My response:
The tee shirts may be made from organic cotton (how reliable is the certification?) but cotton plants are notoriously thirsty and cotton farming has caused environmental disasters. Have you heard of the Aral Sea? Dyeing and bleaching cotton also uses vast amounts of water and causes pollution of rivers from factory outfalls.
Should you be encouraging people to buy yet more cotton tee shirts when they probably don’t wear all those they already have?
