Question by Spruce Moose: Is it better to buy 100% organic cotton, or 60% bamboo/40% standard cotton?
Speaking in terms of clothing and towels specifically. I have been able to find some towels that are 60% bamboo and 40% standard cotton. But I would of course prefer to buy something that is 100% organic. But I know that bamboo is an excellent resource as well.
So what’s better in terms of being sustainable?
Best answer:
Answer by Shrike
Cotton is already genetically altered to produce more fluff, and bamboo is just huge to begin with… but grows slower.
Cotton is still the better one.
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In terms of being sustainable – they are both good choices
Just make sure that you like it and will use it, just buying stuff that is sustainable or eco-friendly is NOT doing anything if you are going to throw it away in a week or two. Be practical and buy what you must, not buy what you think you need.
Quite frankly, just because you are buying something that is 100% cotton or bamboo or what not, it will not make much of a difference to the corporate world.
Reduce is the most important in the 3 Rs for sustainability. If you don’t need it, don’t get it.
There are better things to worry about. Worry about what you waste every day. Those towels will last for years and not make a dimes worth of difference.
Better yet worry about that mad man in the White House who wants to kill your grandmother.
Both are good materials for sustainability so I would determine this by which has had to be transported less. BUY LOCAL, you can have a product that is very eco friendly but if you put it in a truck, plane, boat and ship it around the globe twice it stops being eco friendly. Look at where you are and look at where the products have to travel and buy the one less traveled.
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