Organic Cotton

Here at Vinyl Bear we love Organic Cotton, it’s the first clothing we used for our printing and our customers loved it as well, they love the quality and feel of the product as well as knowing they are being that little bit more friendly to our environment.

So what is Organic Cotton?

Organic Cotton is defined as cotton that is grown organically is subtropical countries from non genetically modified plants, and without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides. Its production is supposed to promote and enhance biodiversity and biological cycles.

Why choose Organic Cotton?

Cotton covers 2.5% of the world’s cultivated land but uses 10-16% of the world’s pesticides, more than any other single major crop!!!
All these pesticides (including herbicides, insecticides, and defoliants) which of course eventually pollute the air and surface waters.
Growing Organic Cotton does away with all these nasty chemicals, organic farmers have found ways to create organic cotton to nearly the yields of conventional farmers. Some farmers in the US use composted tea leaves to act as a substitute for pesticides. Research continues to seek new environmentally friendly ways to rid the soil of harmful pesticides. There has even been a study on using certain animal manure, like chickens, to decrease pest population. We love meeting up with our suppliers and finding out the new ways in which they experiment with. One of our favourite stories so far was some farmers had coated their cotton in sugar, this then encouraged ants which took the sugar and left the plants alone and the ants would deter any other insect from nibbling on the cotton. Go Ants!!