Better Cotton is a non-profit, multistakeholder governance group that promotes better standards in cotton farming and practices across 22 countries. As...
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Cotton (from Arabic qutn) is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus...
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leading producer of cotton in China, accounting for about 20% of the world's cotton production and 80% of China's domestic cotton production. Critics...
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The history of cotton can be traced from its domestication, through the important role it played in the history of India, the British Empire, and the United...
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and FSC Mix. The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) works to promote the sustainable production of cotton in adherence with the Better Cotton Standard System...
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The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex since...
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Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940. Recorded by Lead Belly in 1940, "Cotton Fields" was introduced...
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Bryce Jiron Cotton (born August 11, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Perth Wildcats of the National Basketball League (NBL)...
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listed in Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), a non-profit organisation, that contributes towards the United Nations goals to achieve better water sustainability...
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brand Adidas over its support for the Better Cotton Initiative, an industry group that promotes sustainable cotton, after the trade body pulled out of Xinjiang...
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The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631)...
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anti-racism charity Black Minds Matter UK. AllSaints is a member of the Better Cotton Initiative and in 2020 joined the British Retail Consortium’s Climate...
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came after Adidas and other members of the Better Cotton Initiative had publicly resolved to not use cotton sourced from Xinjiang and also following a...
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BCI Engineers & Scientists, Inc., formerly Bromwell & Carrier, Inc. Better Cotton Initiative Bonobo Conservation Initiative British Columbia Investment...
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25% cotton. Cotton paper will produce a better printout than copy paper because it can more readily absorb ink or toner.[citation needed] Cotton paper...
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used as forced labor to pick cotton has also been observed to be at odds with Burton's membership of the Better Cotton Initiative - an industry body...
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which created the machinery and factories to process raw cotton into clothing that was better and cheaper than a handmade product. European and New England...
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responsibility like Textile Exchange, Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) or the Fashion Pact. Some of the names of collections...
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product, and, therefore, put them in a better bargaining position, and in general be of great benefit to the cotton trade.” In response to this and similar...
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Vernon Scheavalie "Schea" Cotton (born May 20, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He was highly touted as a high school player...
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Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on...
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Cotton production in China pertains to cotton which is the prime cash crop of China. Its production was the highest in the world (in excess of 20 percent...
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Harry Evan Auguste Cotton CIE (27 May 1868 – 7 March 1939), better known as Evan Cotton or H. E. A. Cotton, was a Liberal politician, barrister, administrator...
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Boll weevil (redirect from Cotton Boll Weevil)
species of beetle in the family Curculionidae. The boll weevil feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, it migrated into...
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Cotton Lyndal Hill is a fictional character in the Fox animated series King of the Hill voiced by Toby Huss. He was the father of Hank Hill, Good Hank...
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Nitrocellulose (redirect from Gun cotton)
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable...
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The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) is a small New World monkey weighing less than 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). This New World monkey can live up to 24 years...
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The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–1865), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England...
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to avoid using cotton produced in Xinjiang, Wuheqilin published his new artwork Blood Cotton Initiative to criticize the Better Cotton Initiative. A dispute...
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Thomas Davenant Cotton". Retrieved 21 February 2012.[better source needed] Cotton 1871, p. 1. Arbuthnot, A. J.; Savage, . David W. "Cotton, George Edward...
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