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Monday, May 10, 2010

10. Products: Organic blue jeans

Myth: My jeans are made of organic cotton so it's okay to buy as many pairs as I want.

Reality: When it comes to wasting water, organic jeans are as bad as regular ones.

Estimates vary, but it takes as much as 2,100 gallons of water to grow enough cotton -- organic or otherwise -- to produce just one pair of jeans, not including the water used to dye and finish the fabric.

Says textile expert Gail Baugh of San Francisco State: "In places where water is a real issue, you have to ask if growing cotton is the best use of resources."

Recycled polyester may be a better bet in terms of preserving resources. Patagonia, for example, sells an R2 jacket, 40% of which is made with polyester of the hand-me-down variety.

3 comments:

Ken Wooi said...

this is interesting.. =)

Glo-w~* said...

wow, very ineresting indeed. never knew. so i better wear more shorts then^^

Meor Azhar said...

The key here is the amount of material - moral of the story - hot pants should be encourage!

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