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How much water do nettle clothes save compared to cotton? 📈🌊

Today, 1.42 billion people – including 450 million children – live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability. (UNICEF, 2021)

Water scarcity already affects every continent. Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, and an increasing number of regions are reaching the limit at which water services can be sustainably delivered, especially in arid regions. (Source 1)

The use of nettle has an estimated impact of saving 460 million liters of water compared to conventional cotton production in 2030 😱📈💦! (Source 2)

In Kenya the average household consumes about 45.4 liter water per day. 460 million liter water saved per year by nettles 🌿 will provide sufficient water use for 27.759 Kenyan households! 😇(Source 3)

- Source 1: https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/scarcity/
- Source 2: https://billiondollarcollection.com/green-nettle-textile/
- Source 3:https://www.waterfund.go.ke/watersource/Downloads/004.%20Improving%20Urban%20Water%20Supply%20in%20Kenya.pdf

What is ethical sourcing? 🕵️‍♀️🌎

Ethical sourcing is buying products that support small-scale manufacturers or local artisans and protect animals and the environment while boycotting products that exploit children as workers, are tested on animals, or damage the environment.

We at Wear Nettle produce 100% of our products by these standards. To make even a bigger impact we donate 5% of each purchase by you to local charity funds in Kenya! 🙌💸

A little introduction from Wear Nettle! 🌿

"Our mission is to create truly sustainable and ethical fashion. Choosing to wear clothes from sustainable and ethical sourced nettles means you make a moral commitment to the Earth, its resources, its flora, its fauna, and its humans. Choose Wear Nettle and bring nature and humanity once again in harmony." 🌎🌿
- Kaj