Cotton is terrible for the environment and you can’t escape it. An estimated 75% of clothing world wide uses some amount of cotton, but its not just clothes. Products including rope, U.S. currency, paper, cooking oil, animal feed, packaging, and biofuels all include cotton. Its ubiquity becomes a going concern when considering the devastating environmental impact cotton has. To understand how bad cotton is for the environment, its impacts can be segmented into three parts: pesticides, water usage, and soil degradation. All of which will demonstrate how cotton came to be known as the “dirtiest crop on earth”.
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