The Life Cycle of a T-Shirt

Which countries are cotton seeds grown in?

• USA, Japan, China

• USA, China, India

• U.K. USA, India

• U.K. China, India

Cotton farming is unsustainable because they require huge quantities of...

• Sunlight

• Pesticides and Water

• Carbon dioxide

• Glucose

The average T-Shirt requires...

• 27 days of rainwater

• 2700 litres of water

• 27 bathtubs of water

• 27,000 litres of water

Which crop uses the most pesticides and insecticides?

• Cotton

• Rice

• Wheat

• Coffee

Organic cotton is made...

• Only with pesticides

• Without any pesticides or insecticides

• Only with insecticides

• With both insecticides and pesticides

Organic cotton makes up...

• Less than 10% of cotton sold worldwide

• More than 1% of cotton sold worldwide

• Less than 1% of cotton sold worldwide

• More than 10% of the cotton sold worldwide

Cotton is shipped to...

• Spinning facilities

• Factories

• Warehouses

• Clothing stores

Bleach and dyes used in clothes contain...

• toxic chemicals

• nuclear waste

• pesticides

• drinking water

Toxic chemicals from the dying process are sometimes released into...

• the factory

• the atmosphere

• the textiles

• rivers and oceans

The processing of cotton into clothes requires a lot of human touch.

• True

• False