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Fertilizer's Impact on the Gulf

Article Category: World Affairs

Author Name: Kevin Barry

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is just starting to wrap up, after capturing the attention of the nation. PBS calculates the amount spilled at about ninety two million gallons (671,600,000 pounds); much greater than the Exxon Mobile spill. Scientists, conservationists and fisherman are guessing how long it will take the gulf to mend.

But at this exact moment, is there another, bigger, spill happening? And is it worse for the Gulf?

Every year 1,450,000,000 pounds (double the oil spill) of chemical fertilizer spills into various parts of the worlds drinking water supply. This is not a count of total fertilizer use – this is a low calculation of the volume of chemical fertilizer that flows unused and uncontained from cotton industrial operations every twelve months as runoff. The world demands cotton, and cotton is an enormously fertilizer hungry crop.

The liquids can be just as bad as oil. Two hundred "Dead Zones" have been surfacing around the world, including in the Gulf of Mexico, in which "no fish or typical sea life can survive." These spills have been slowly encroaching on habitats and fishing grounds for decades, and the largest of these zones exceeded 20,000 square kilometers, an area the size of New Jersey or Massachusetts, in 2008.

The damage also goes further, into our drinking water. Nitrates in water are linked to Blue Baby Syndrome – a fatal disease increasingly well documented in the United States of America

As the cotton trade expands, it appears this spill is fated to get bigger, and it can not be capped. We're in trouble if we don't find a greener answer (such as organic and recycled clothing) in an business that rarely helping the earth to mind.

Luckily, there is an alternative. A recently released report, "Mapping the Future of Green Innovation", goes over the impact of green on many separate industries, including fashion (pgs 8-9).

They found a strong correlation between sustainable business practices and share value in the latest quarters, and a great deal of space in the market for green apparel items. They mention an issue holding retailers back, which I've talked about before; the general lack of organic cotton available. (reco uses recycled cotton, of which the supply is currently unlimited).

And there was this interesting new tidbit;

Unlike with other market segments, data suggests that sustainable clothing appears to be an incremental new category rather than intruding on the share of traditional clothing (according to the nonprofit trade association Organic Exchange). Consumers are not switching to green clothing, but instead are adding a few sustainable items to their existing wardrobe (source: Mintel Green Living, January 2009).

Keywords: recycled clothing, reco jeans, oil spill, petroleum, environmentally friendly

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