Green Energy

By Timothy Greensland

 Cotton is well-known for its ability to wrinkle if you do so much as look at it wrong. Cotton that does this has not been treated with a chemical called Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde bonds with the normal compounds of cotton, which prevents it from wrinkling. Most cottons are now treated with this chemical in order to lower the quantity of work it takes to own cotton clothing.


In addition to Formaldehyde, as if wearing a cancer-causing agent was not bad enough, the process that non organic cotton goes through does a figure on the environment. Non organic cotton is grown with a long file of fertilizers and pesticides used to protect and encourage growth of the plant life. However, these fertilizers and pesticides wash out of the fields and straight into the ecosystems. From the local ecosystems, these compounds go directly into the rivers, which then flow into the oceans. The consequence is the increase of lifeless zones, such as the one located in the Gulf of Mexico. By refusing to purchase everything but organic cotton clothing, you transmit a memo to the bank accounts

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