US Cotton Industry Aims To Establish Cotton Sustainable Benchmark

Cotton Incorporated has been targeted. cotton Product completion of a two life cycle inventory and life cycle analysis will be used as a measure of the environmental impact of cotton standards, and as a guide industry committed to sustainable development direction.

The study was part of the twenty-first Century cotton outlook project, which participated in the planners, including the American Cotton Association and the international cotton association. Its purpose is to establish timely and accurate cotton potential environmental impact criteria for the entire global cotton supply chain.

The cotton industry has compiled a complete cotton life cycle inventory according to the cotton outlook twenty-first Century plan. The data will serve as a benchmark for global cotton life cycle assessment and will ultimately serve as a reliable basis for sustainable textile operation. The life cycle inventory is used to quantify energy, materials and environmental data for cradle to gate and gate to gate during cotton production.

Life cycle assessment for cotton made garments ( knitting Golf shirts and woven cotton trousers) establish a pattern of environmental impact from washing, ironing, using and discarding (cradle to grave) from cotton fields to consumers. The processing data of cotton fiber are collected from three largest cotton producing countries - China, India and the United States.

Similarly, textile processing data are representative of the four textile manufacturing giants - Turkey, India, mainland China and Latin America. The relevant information is also used as a global average. Data for tailoring, sewing and consumer use are supplemented by indirect data sources. Life cycle assessment is centered on cotton, so it is not compared with other fibers' impact on the environment.

Cotton Incorporated president and CEO Berrye Worsham said. textile industry And consumers are worried about the green marketing driven by competition. This plan is a presentation of facts and establishes standards to measure progress in improving cotton's environmental impact. The data will be published through different pipelines.