Surely a cotton T-shirt is made up only of cotton ?
No ?
The average 100% cotton T-shirt is made up of ONLY 73% cotton. The other 27% is made up of chemicals (and their residue such as pesticides and formaldehyde) that were used to grow and make it. It takes approximately 17 teaspoons of pesticides alone to grow enough cotton to make one T-shirt.
How does this affect me ?
It`s all about choice... most of the chemicals used to grow and manufacture a normal cotton T-shirt are on the World Health Organisation`s (WHO) ‘moderately hazardous’ list and two are known to be on their `highly hazardous` list. But they are still used. The chemicals used in normal cotton farming are on these lists because they are known to be carcinogenic which affect both the nervous and reproductive systems.
 
 
 
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