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submitted 5 months ago by Persona3Reload@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Cotton is often grown with large amounts of pesticides and uses enourmous amounts of fibers.

[-] Akisamb@programming.dev 26 points 5 months ago

And cow feed is also grown with tons of pesticides and you need much more of it for less tissue at the end.

I have hard time seeing clothing with a bigger environmental than leather.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Of course, but there are more options than leather, like bamboo, linen, and lyocell.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But one could also use linen, hemp, ramie/urtica/nettle. However, they are more complicated to process and as the results are textiles, they are not windproof or water repellent.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago

The tanning process is no joke either.

[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

Organic and recycled cotton is a lot better, and hemp and linen are also pretty good. And if you're worried about hazardous pesticides the majority is used while growing feed for animals.