‘Portable Pelt’ 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney
- The fashion industry is the second largest user of water in the world. Pretty scary when there are almost 1 billion people in the world with no safe drinking water source.
- Over 90 million items (or 2 million tonnes) of clothing end up in land fill sites globally each year. (BBC – 2009)
- 150 grams of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are used to produce the cotton for just one t-shirt.
-Sheep, alpaca, llamas and other wool-bearing animals contribute to the production of methane gas, a major greenhouse gas.
-The growing and harvesting of natural fibers such as cotton and hemp generally use farm tractors and truckswhich run on non-renewable fossil fuels of diesel and gasoline that pour black smoke and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Pop over to their blog to read more, it just might change the way you use natures resources and they way you buy.
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