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  2. Organic cotton - Wikipedia

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    Cotton covers 2.5% of the world's cultivated land but uses 10-16% of the world's pesticides (including herbicides, insecticides, and defoliants), more than any other single major crop. [4] [7] Environmental consequences of the elevated use of chemicals in the non-organic cotton growing methods include the following:

  3. Oeko-Tex - Wikipedia

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    The association includes 17 test and research institutes in Europe and Japan, with offices in over 70 countries around the world (as of 2023). [16] Oeko-Tex awards: Product labels for textile products: Oeko-Tex Standard 100, Oeko-Tex Made in Green and Oeko-Tex Organic Cotton; Product label for leather articles: Oeko-Tex Leather Standard

  4. Cotton recycling - Wikipedia

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    The production of organic cotton can have detrimental environmental impacts due to the amount of water, land, chemicals, and emissions used to create it. [7] Approximately 2.6% of global water use can be attributed to the production of cotton. [7] Cotton cultivation is also responsible for about 11% of global pesticide consumption. [7]

  5. Better Cotton Initiative - Wikipedia

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    Better Cotton is a non-profit, multistakeholder governance group that promotes better standards in cotton farming and practices across 22 countries. As of 2023, Better Cotton accounts for 22% of global cotton production. In the 2021-2022 cotton season, 2.2 million licensed farmers grew 5.4 million tonnes of Better Cotton. [2]

  6. Committee on Sustainability Assessment - Wikipedia

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    The International Cotton Advisory Committee's Expert Panel on the Social, Environmental, and Economic Performance of Cotton and the Food and Agriculture Organization Plant Production and Protection Division published a guidance framework for measuring the sustainability of cotton farming systems with indicators that were in part informed by ...

  7. Textile recycling - Wikipedia

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    Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.

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  9. Green textile - Wikipedia

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    Green textiles are fabrics or fibres produced to replace environmentally harmful textiles and minimise the ecological impact.Green textiles (or eco-textiles) are part of the sustainable fashion and eco-friendly trends, providing alternatives to the otherwise pollution-heavy products of conventional textile industry, which is deemed the most ecologically damaging industry.