Low Carbon Environmental Protection Performance Of Clothing

As a concept, environmental clothing was first put forward at the end of the last century. However, due to the limitation of development level and production cost of environmental protection materials, only a few garment enterprises and brands are exploring in the field of environmental protection clothing.

In recent years, due to the rising cost of oil and other raw materials, coupled with its own chemical characteristics, the clothing industry has launched a campaign of "green environmental protection". With the convening of the Copenhagen climate summit, this craze will be further pushed forward.

"Big polluters"

In terms of people's common sense, clothing and environmental protection, "low carbon" based on a little bit of the relationship.

However, what they do not know is that a lot of materials such as cotton and ramie are used in the planting stage. Pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides are widely used to pollute the environment.

When raw materials are stored, preservatives, fungicides and moth proofing agents such as pentachlorophenol are used. In the process of weaving, oxidants, catalysts, decontamination agents, azo dyes intermediates, formaldehyde and halide carriers and heavy metals are used in printing and dyeing.

Environmental protection clothing, refers to the whole process of raw material production, processing, use, resource recovery and so on. It can eliminate pollution, protect the environment, maintain ecological balance, and be harmless to the human body and healthy clothing.

For example, a Japanese textile enterprise recently joined hands with Magoya City University to develop a new textile material called banana stem fiber by using abandoned banana stems. It has found a way out for the world's annual up to 10 million tons of abandoned banana stems, which is "environmental protection clothing".

"More than 8000 chemicals in one garment are used to turn raw materials into clothing fabrics and clothing," said German environmental protection clothing expert Hoff. "The fiber used in environmental protection clothing has the characteristics of improving circulation, anti allergy and antibacterial properties."

There are three developing directions for environmental protection clothing.

Experts believe that, first of all, stress environmental protection at the same time, pay attention to health and comfort, so that the clothes to wear to become "wear" maintenance products, for example, can remove odor, fully absorb sweat socks, with air conditioning function, can change with the temperature of the color change of ceramic fiber health care clothing; secondly, emphasize the production and use of cleaner production, green consumption, so that clothes no longer increase the environmental load.

Finally, reducing the price of environmental protection clothing, expanding the varieties of environmental protection clothing, and enabling consumers to purchase environmentally friendly clothing, are also the most important problems to be solved in the development of environmental protection clothing such as plant dyed underwear.

Organic cotton: "red to hot".

Organic cotton has grown up in organic cotton fields all the time. Here it enjoys "good breathing environment", pollution-free water source irrigation, rich organic soil and other survival factors. The picked cotton is truly pollution-free, high-quality, environmentally friendly and natural "environmental friendly cotton".

In addition, the whole process of organic cotton growth will not use pesticides, and around the cotton fields in the major cotton producing areas in China. Because of pests and diseases, insecticides are frequently used.

The organic quilt is sent to the processing plant, and the fabrics produced are excellent in environmental protection and skin affinity.

In the developed countries of Europe and America, the organic cotton clothing is developing rapidly.

H&M, a Swedish fashion retailer, as a member of the organic cotton trade association, has devoted a lot of energy to the promotion of organic cotton clothing.

At present, its organic cotton clothing products category has covered men's wear, women's wear, teenage clothing, children's clothing and other fields.

The chief designer of H&M said: "on the one hand, because of the increasing awareness of consumers' environmental protection, the organic cotton clothing is favored.

On the other hand, organic cotton clothing should also have the characteristics of fashion, which is a wise move. "

NIKE, the global sportswear giant, also launched the latest "IKESPORTSWEAR" product in 09 May.

The concept of "modern life style", which is full of environmental protection, is the main concept. The "NIKESPORTSWEAR" product 100% is made of organic cotton fabric.

Statistics show that: at present, the top 10 brands and retailers of the global use of organic cotton are: WAL-MART of the United States, C&A of Belgium, Nike of the United States, H&M of Sweden, Zara of Spain, Anvil of the United States, Coop of Switzerland, PotteryBarn of the United States, Greensource of the United States and HessNatur of Germany.

The world's 94% output of organic cotton comes from five countries: India, Syria, Turkey, China and Tanzania.

The United States is the sixth largest producer of organic cotton in the world.

Hemp fiber: "drugs" environmental protection

People may not think that cannabis can not only bring people mental paralysis, but also be banned by many countries, and it can also contribute to human environmental protection and carbon reduction.

"Hemp fabric is more environmentally friendly than cotton."

Research from Melbourne University has shown that cannabis cloth has 50% less impact on cotton than cotton cloth, and at the same time saves more water and pesticides than cotton cloth in the production process.

Hemp, also known as linen, hemp, hemp and hemp, is the most tender fiber on the earth. It has the reputation of "the source of the national textile and the clothing of the ten thousand year old". Its planting history has been at least 8000 years.

The growth of hemp requires only a small amount of water and fertilizer, without any pesticides, and can be decomposed naturally. It is a rare environmental protection textile raw material.

As the "king of natural fibers", the clothes made from hemp have many functions such as moisture absorption, breathability, comfort, heat dissipation, mould proof, bacteriostasis, radiation resistance, UV protection and sound absorption. They have unique environmental protection and health care functions. The added value is very high (the price in Europe and the United States is two times that of cotton), and it is a natural green fiber.

"Hemp is a treasure, its fiber is a typical functional and environment-friendly rare and precious textile fiber. It has the characteristics of moisture absorption, air permeability and radiation resistance. It is of great benefit to human health. The leaves, flowers and roots of hemp, linseed and linen are of high value. The comprehensive utilization of hemp is across 12 industries and is a real fiber resource."

Li Rucheng, chairman of YOUNGOR group, which has successfully developed hemp products, said.

"Carbon labelling": making environmental protection more pparent.

The role of "carbon label" is to prove that the clothing product is low carbon clothing.

At present, in some countries and regions, there has been "carbon labelling", such as Hongkong and Taiwan.

In Hongkong, the clothing Training Council jointly established the Alliance for sustainable development of garment enterprises in Hongkong. It plans to design low-carbon processes for clothing production in the future and pform them into carbon labels on clothing.

As a means for garment manufacturers to carry out the pparency of garment production processes, "carbon labelling" is a good choice, which helps consumers to grasp the environmental performance of clothes faster and is also conducive to the healthy development of clothing environmental protection business.