Why buy organic cotton?

Why buy organic cotton?

• Conventional cotton uses 25% of the world’s insecticides. Regular cotton also uses 10% of the world’s pesticides.

• Organic cotton not only doesn’t use pesticides, but it uses a lot less water because organic cotton is a rotation crop. When crops are rotated the soil maintains its nutrients and is better able to hold water in. Mass irrigation happens on regular cotton and uses 3,000 cubic meters more of water per acre to grow than organic cotton.

• Currently, only 0.5% of the cotton market is organic.

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