Cotton is now being used for more and more materials that we use in our everyday lives. This fiber can be traced back to Egypt in 12,000 B.C. which means that it has been used for at least 7,000 years. It has been used for everything from bed sheets to money. Little do people know that even the money we use daily is a blend between cotton and linen. But even that is not the biggest surprise cotton has to offer.
Cotton is a crop that is grown across the United States and it is grown in 17 states from the East Coast to the West Coast. Fields of cotton cover over 12 million acres in the United States which equals over 7.2 billion pounds of product each year. Even though the United States is not the largest supplier of cotton, it is the largest exporter. All of this cotton helps leads to an estimated 120 billion dollars of revenue every year.[1]
Most fibers today have to be mixed with another fiber to make a stronger, better material that can withstand daily use. Cotton is no exception. The most common use for cotton is clothes, which makes up sixty-four percent (64%) of the cotton used. The second most common use is for home furnishings which make up twenty-eight percent (28%), there are so many different fibers that can be used to be mixed with cotton. For one example, like mentioned earlier, is money. Money is a mix of 75% cotton and 25% linen. There are many more things made up with a mix of cotton but listing all the examples would take days!
Overall, cotton is a very useful fiber that is used constantly in our everyday lives. Even though many people do not realize it, cotton affects us in everything people do. It is an important fiber that is a natural resource that helps keeps thousands of people working and helps the economy tremendously.
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