Eco facts: Why use organic cotton?

Why use Organic Cotton?

“Conventionally grown cotton uses more insecticides than any other single crop and epitomizes the worst effects of chemically dependent agriculture. Each year cotton producers around the world use nearly $2.6 billion worth of pesticides -- more than 10% of the world's pesticides and nearly 25% of the world's insecticides.

Cotton growers typically use many of the most hazardous pesticides on the market including aldicarb, phorate, methamidophos and endosulfan. Cotton pesticides are often broad spectrum organophosphates--pesticides originally developed as toxic nerve agents during World War II--and carbamate pesticides.

Pesticides used on cotton–even when used according to instructions–harm people, wildlife and the environment. These pesticides can poison farm workers, drift into neighbouring communities, contaminate ground and surface water and kill beneficial insects and soil micro-organisms.” Source: www.panna.org

We recommend that you buy our bags made from SKAL certified Organic Cotton and Jute because they are natural crops, grown without the use of these pesticides and chemicals. Our prices for these products are the most competitive available because we believe that we should promote their use.

We would love to only offer Organic Cotton products, unfortunately Organic Cotton, although increasing in production, still represents a tiny fraction of the cotton grown every year across the world and subsequently costs us more than twice as much as conventionally grown cotton.

We believe that at this moment in time, the benefits offered by producing conventional cotton bags, outweigh the obvious cost of continuing to support it’s damaging and aggressive cultivation. Each cotton bag we sell will mean that potentially hundreds of plastic bags will not be produced. It is a fine balance of benefits and one that we will regularly review until we become a purely organic supplier

SKAL certified Organic Cotton yarn is used in the manufacture of our Organic Cotton

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