Europe buys 1/3 of Uzbek cotton.
Cotton - environmental disaster & lethal pesticides from Environmental Justice Foundation on Vimeo.
Cotton - child labour & human rights abuses from Environmental Justice Foundation on Vimeo.
p.s. why should INDONESIAN designers care about the effect of cotton far far away in UZBEKISTAN??
... Indonesia does not grow cotton. that means all the tons and TONS of cotton jerseys and wovens knitted and woven in factories in Bandung are from imported cotton. mostly unorganic cotton from Uzbekistan for example but also form India... loaded with pesticides.
It causes illness and even death for their farmers and their (our!) eco-system. By buying organic cotton you are supporting a heathly and enviromentally friendly fibre. If you are looking for suppliers please join the Indonesian Ethical Fashion Forum on Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo or NING (ethical fashion forum).
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