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|  | Sustainable Fashion
| 11/06/2007, 04:29 PM
| | When you put on a wool sweater to stay warm during Michigan winters, you probably don’t consider that your sweater’s material causes soil degradation. The fact is, however, that the materials that make up our clothes cause different changes in the environment.
Have you ever looked at what your clothing is made of? Cotton, polyester, rayon, wool. Cotton depletes the soil of most nutritive value and entails many pesticides. Polyester is made from petroleum. Rayon requires wood, chemicals, and a lot of fossil fuels. For the environmentally-consc...
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