"The fashion industry, particularly manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, is a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution."
The environmental and social impact of the textiles industry, including approaches such as eco-friendly production methods, sustainable sourcing, and ethical labor practices.
Sustainable Fashion: Understanding what Sustainable Fashion is and how it contributes to the overall sustainability of the textile and clothing industry.
Eco-Friendly Fabrics: Learning about different types of eco-friendly fabrics that can be used in clothing production. Such as organic cotton, bamboo, recycled polyester and Tencel.
Life Cycle Assessment: Understanding the environmental impact that each stage of the textile and clothing production process has on sustainability. From raw material extraction to garment disposal.
Circular Economy: Understanding the importance of the circular economy model in the textile and clothing industry. This means reusing resources and minimizing waste.
Green Chemistry: Understanding the importance of green chemistry advancements in the textile and clothing industry. This includes the environmentally friendly production of dyes and other chemicals used in textile production.
Fair Trade: Understanding the importance of fair trade practices in the textile and clothing industry. This includes fair wages, safe working conditions and the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Slow Fashion: Understanding the importance of slow fashion and how it differs from fast fashion. This includes investing in quality garments that can be worn season after season, rather than disposable fashion.
Sustainable Supply Chain: Understanding the importance of a sustainable supply chain and how supply chain management can be improved to reduce the negative impact on the environment.
Zero Waste: Understanding the importance of zero-waste practices in the textile and clothing industry. This includes finding innovative ways to recycle clothing, and minimize waste during production.
Textile Recycling: Understanding the importance of textile recycling, the benefits of textile recycling and how textile recycling contributes to overall sustainability.
Consumer Behavior: Understanding the impact of consumer behavior on the textile and clothing industry’s sustainability efforts. Factors such as purchasing habits, and social and cultural influences can influence consumer behavior.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the textile and clothing industry. This includes the responsibility of businesses to operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
Circular economy: A regenerative system that aims to reuse and recycle materials to reduce waste and pollution in the production process.
Fair trade: A trade system that supports social, economic, and environmental sustainability by ensuring fair working conditions and wages for workers in developing countries.
Upcycling: The process of transforming waste materials into new and valuable products.
Organic farming: A method of cultivating crops using natural fertilizers and traditional methods to minimize harm to the environment.
Sustainable fashion: The production of clothing and other garments using eco-friendly materials and sustainable production methods, such as reducing waste and using renewable energy sources.
Biodegradable: Materials that can decompose naturally and safely without harming the environment.
Green materials: Materials that are eco-friendly, including recycled and upcycled fabrics and natural fibers.
Ethical fashion: A movement that advocates for ethical manufacturing and production practices in the fashion industry, including fair wages, humane working conditions, and sustainable sourcing practices.
Carbon neutrality: Refers to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve a zero-carbon footprint, promoting greater sustainability.
Traceability: The ability to track and monitor the entire supply chain in textile and clothing production, ensuring the transparency of sourcing and production information.
Water conservation: A practice aimed at reducing water usage in the production of textiles and clothing, which is an essential factor in greater sustainability.
Closed-loop systems: A production process that is carefully designed to minimize waste, such that every output is reused or recycled within the system, adding to greater sustainability objectives.
End-of-life: Ensuring that all products and materials are managed responsibly at each stage of their life cycle, including disposal and sustainable recycling.
Minimal waste: A production process that strives to minimize the amount of waste created in the production of textiles and clothing.
Social responsibility: Protecting the rights of workers and promoting social justice and activism. Emphasizes the importance of living in harmony with the environment, eco-systems, and society.
"The rapid growth of fast fashion has led to around 80 billion items of clothing being consumed annually."
"Less than one percent of clothing is recycled to make new clothes."
"The industry produces an estimated 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions."
"The production and distribution of the crops, fibers, and garments used in fashion all contribute to differing forms of environmental pollution, including water, air, and soil degradation."
"The textile industry is the second greatest polluter of local freshwater in the world."
"The textile industry [...] is culpable for roughly one-fifth of all industrial water pollution."
"Some of the main factors that contribute to this industrial-caused pollution are the vast overproduction of fashion items, the use of synthetic fibers, the agriculture pollution of fashion crops, and the proliferation of microfibers across global water sources."
"Efforts have been made by some retailers and consumers to promote sustainable fashion practices, such as reducing waste, and improving energy and water efficiency."
"The manufacture and use of apparel and footwear."
"The rapid growth of fast fashion has led to around 80 billion items of clothing being consumed annually."
"The fact that less than one percent of clothing is recycled to make new clothes."
"The industry produces an estimated 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions."
"The production and distribution of the crops, fibers, and garments used in fashion all contribute to differing forms of environmental pollution, including water, air, and soil degradation."
"The textile industry is the second greatest polluter of local freshwater in the world."
"The vast overproduction of fashion items, the use of synthetic fibers, the agriculture pollution of fashion crops, and the proliferation of microfibers."
"Reducing waste, and improving energy and water efficiency."
"The manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, particularly in the fast fashion sector, contributes to plastic pollution."
"The textile industry is culpable for roughly one-fifth of all industrial water pollution."
"Less than one percent of clothing is recycled to make new clothes."