Natural Fibers in Kenya are important to house natural resources because it is needed to maintain their crucial role in its economy, which also helps maintain its deep-rooted culture within their country’s natural resources. According to the author, one may say that Kenya’s cotton-growing regions are in the western, eastern, coastal, and central regions, which in result caused cotton to increase from fifteen to twenty percent because they made sure that the quality of the cotton was intact and caused Kenya’s resources of cotton to be stable (Kegode, 2003). A fiber that was born in nature from Kenya and introduced recently as a sustainable natural fiber is Sisal fiber which serves as a durable and biodegradable material that is derived from the Agave sisalana plant. The luxurious patterns that the Sisal fiber creates in its uniqueness are the rustic patterns/ weaves in which it creates (Sawa Sawa, 2023). Kenya is also home to a Bamboo fiber plant which is becoming useful for creating products such as home furnishings and wooden jewelry (Maina, 2014). One may say that Kenya has put innovation to use with its ability to think outside of the box by turning natural fibers into sustainable creative projects that would still achieve the need for products to be created into a market that would still have natural handmade products, whereas with synthetic there is a difference in quality but still would be beneficial for international interest in doing business with them.
One may say that Kenya isn’t a big exporter of synthetic materials, but they’ve got a few synthetic materials that they do still create even though they’re still susceptible to other countries dumping their non-degradable clothing in Kenya and creating very hostile conditions for Kenyan people to survive from the toxic clothing trade in place. According to the author, synthetic filament yarn is lab-created and derived from plastic used to create clothing, bags, and footwear (Wigmore Trading, 2021). Kenyan people are experiencing very unsafe conditions to live with used clothing brushed up on the shore in big volumes, which is shipped to Kenya and the waste of synthetic clothing is creating devastating consequences to its environment and people (Lu, 2023). According to the article, one may say that Kenya is filled with toxic fumes since it is extremely illegal to dump unwanted clothing in Kenya because it harms its waters and because it takes a long time for it to degrade, especially when the backbone of the Fashion Industry plastic clothing whether you donate it or keep it is still considered to be illegal when handing it out (Stinson, 2023). Even though Kenya may seem as though they don’t have any control over their country, the people there are fighting hard against the illegal clothing dropped at their country, but focusing on the ways In which they could be sustainable Is a goal of Kenyans.
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