Raw Materials
Newest edition of the review asks: How well do you know your cottons?
Executive Summary
Highlights from the current issue of the ‘Review’ include:
An update of the current cotton market
A wide-ranging look at the many types of branded sustainable cotton programmes from around the world: Argentina; Australia; BASF; Brazil; China; Cotton made in Africa; CottonConnect; Textile Exchange; and the USA
Many of them are branded and promoted by the countries producing the fibre:
- Africa's Cotton made in Africa,
- Argentina's Responsible Cotton,
- Australia's myBMP,
- Brazil's Responsible Cotton,
- China's Sustainable Development, and
- The USA's Cotton Trust Protocol.
The others are championed by businesses (BASF's e3; the CottonConnect programme) and nonprofits (Textile Exchange's Climate+ Strategy).
Although cotton is a natural fibre and inherently more sustainable than synthetic fibres like polyester, the ICAC estimates that only about 30% of the cotton fibre produced in the world is done so under sustainable conditions, so the efforts of these countries and organisations are going a long way toward addressing one of cotton's greatest challenges.
The opening article, 'A Rare Period of Stability in an Up-and-Down Year', highlights how a crazy, unpredictable season came to a quiet and steady close, with little changed in the final two months of the 2021/22 season.
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