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Pic: Shutterstock The world is not going to break away any time soon from cotton and polyester, which together make up for 76 per cent (51.5 per cent polyester and 24.1 per cent cotton) of the global fibre market in the fashion industry. While the ubiquity of cotton cannot be overlooked, the alternative to cotton polyester results in a lot of microfibre pollution.
Cotton has been under pressure because of anthropogenic activities, climate change, etc. It is not the most sustainable thing around, and you need land to grow it. If a huge piece of land is used to plant cotton, then you wouldn’t have that land for food. Second, the water consumption of cotton is high, says Hoi Kwan Lam, group chief marketing officer, HeiQ Materials AG, in the March 2021 edition of Fibre2Fashion.
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