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The Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Fibers

This guide focuses specifically on fiber impacts, highlighting the positive and negative attributes associated with Hemp, Linen, Organic Cotton, Recycled Cotton, Recycled Polyester, and TENCEL™ from Lenzing; providing you with the knowledge to make informed fiber decisions in your company and ultimately for your customers. Regardless of your fiber choice, you can find valuable information in this guide to support your company's specific focus area and path to sustainability.

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2011 Organic Cotton Farm and Fiber Report

The 2011 Farm & Fiber Report covers the significant decline in organic cotton fiber production, the reasons behind it, and the need for industry action. For the first time, we’ve also covered other sustainable cotton initiatives including Better Cotton Initiative (BCI, Fairtrade, Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), and customized cleaner cotton programs with notes from ICAC and Cotton Inc.). The full report is 131 pages and provides in depth case studies and with the Executive Summary coming in at 27 pages. Organic cotton production declined 35 percent from 241,697 metric tonnes (mt) in 2010/11 to 151,079 mt this year. It covers 218,966 farmers growing on 324,577 hectares.
 
Depending on existing fiber inventory levels, this decline may well impact brands and retailers looking to expand their organic cotton programs. Production is also predicted to decline an additional 5 percent in 2011/12.
 
As always, the Textile Exchange Farm and Fiber Report is available as a free benefit of membership.  Members can access this and other benefits here.  Non-members are encouraged to learn more about membership by visiting http://textileexchange.org/membership or by contacting Daren Abney, Member Services Manager.  The Farm and Fiber Report as well as the Executive Summary of the report is available to non-members for purchase (see right for the full report or click here for Executive Summary).  Please also see the accompanying Cotton Briefings 2012.

View the press release here.
2011 Organic Cotton Market Report from Textile Exchange
2011 Organic Cotton Market Report

The 2011 Organic Cotton Market Report is here and available for free download. Get ready to read about the highs and lows of 2011 – truly a year of contradictions. This Report continues vital conversations that were underscored at the Organic Cotton Roundtable during our most recent Sustainable Textiles Conference in Hong Kong.

For the first time, we are offering this report free of charge. Our decision to offer it at no cost is driven by the importance of the findings. We all need open access to this updated and vetted information so that we can implement systemic changes. We invite you to read the report, share it with anyone and everyone who has a hand in building a more sustainable textile industry and then talk with us – it’s only through two-way conversation that we’ll discover the tipping point for the changes we need to see.

 

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