How much is your shirt?

I watched a swedish documentary today, it was fairly briefly about the textile industry. It's astonishing how cotton is one of the most popular fabrics and yet it is the least sustainable crop. For every 1 kg clothing we buy there is 1 kg of chemicals from pesticides, dyeing and varying treatments! Surely there must be loads of chemicals left in the clothes when we buy them, affecting us as well, but on a much smaller scale.

The chemicals and pesticides trickles down and pollute the groundwater supplies making it directly poisonous for drinking. However the people living in these areas have no choice but to drink it even though it leave them with cancer and congenital disorders.

This isn't directly big news but it made me think about my collection and how I, as far as I can, want to avoid cotton, and if I do use it I'll make sure it's sourced either secondhand or organically (even though there is pesticides involved there too).