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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

The tanning process is no joke either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 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.