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From Field to Shelf - Why is cotton always the industry punch bag?

2020-02-05 12:31:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Having worked in the cotton industry for many years (including as a consultant to BASF's e3 sustainable cotton programme), one of the things I've noticed about clothing brands is that when pressed on sustainable production they almost always blame cotton for their woes, writes Robert Antoshak, managing director at Olah Inc. Why is this?

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