1. BCI cotton refers to cotton that meets BCI standards. The full name of BCI(Better Cotton Initiative) is "Good Cotton Development Association", and it boasts itself as the largest non-profit organization for cotton sustainable development in the world. It has formulated relevant standards, requiring members to use cotton that they think meets the standards before they can use the BCI logo. In addition to the so-called "environmental standards", BCI advocates the so-called "advocating decent work". The organization fabricated the lie of "forced labor" in Xinjiang cotton production out of thin air to ban Xinjiang cotton.
2. BCI was born out of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). BCI is intended to monitor the impact of cotton production on the environment and labor. With the intervention of USAID and Swiss funds, BCI has grown rapidly from a small organization that was unknown in the past.
by 217, BCI has 85 cooperative brands and 139 cooperative factories, which can issue certification for 3.3 million tons of cotton produced by 1.3 million cotton farmers around the world.
as a non-governmental organization in cotton industry, BCI has no technology and production capacity, but because it stands at the commanding height of morality, it can have a great impact on the industrial system of cotton industry through certification, scoring and evaluation. This kind of organization is also called "industrial NGO".
3. Although BCI claims to be non-profit, there are many money entanglements involved. First, to join BCI, you need to pay for certification; When BCI certificate is required for shipment, another sum of money will be paid; The certificate can be issued as long as it is an institution, and no one investigates whether the yarn is really made of BCI cotton.