How To Meet The Challenge Of "Sustainable" Clothing

Recently, people in the fashion circle have put forward the concept of "sustainability starts with spanparency", calling on consumers and manufacturers to pay attention to the sources of garments and fabrics. The implication is that when you think of dirty production lines, you will naturally dislike new born pollute producers and gradually reduce pollution from roots.

Think of this. It seems a little similar to the imagination of those dead rats entering the roadside booth.

Every piece of clothing is produced, and this planet needs to tremble gently. According to statistics, every production of 1 kilograms of cotton line needs 20 thousand liters of water, and these cotton lines can only produce 1 T-shirts and 1 pairs of jeans. At the same time, from raw materials to garments, more than 8000 kinds of chemicals will be used.

However, the fashion industry has been trying to make some efforts to make clothing production closer to "sustainable". Yesterday we released a clothing recycling plan for the luxury goods giant Kering and H&M jointly with the British Worn Again.

Besides, Business of Fashion has launched a discussion recently. Let's look at what the fashion industry should do to make itself more green.

A river polluted by dyed and dyed pigments in Luoyang, China.

The fashion manufacturing industry, in the final analysis, is an industry that relies on creativity, who can survive and who can be unique. Whoever is able to survive is a leader. Unfortunately, on the issue of environmental protection, basically all companies do not act at all. Everyone is watching. This word is called "wait-and-see", hiding behind the door and stretching its neck to look left and right.

Linda Greer, a senior scientist at the World Conservation Commission, said that the textile industry affected the environment from four aspects: fabric selection, factory production and dyeing of fabrics, spanportation mode and the use of manufacturers to users. In the four place, although the cost and production links will interact and interact with each other, the choice of fabric is often the first step in the process of being controlled by designers. Designers and producers should choose environmentally friendly fabrics as much as possible, while toxic chemicals should be banned.

But at the moment, this is only a proposal.

The word "chrome tanning" is a little strange to most people. It is called "g r U". It is a kind of tanning method. It is made of chemical dyestuff. dyeing It is also the most common method of leather manufacturing at present. This technology, which appeared in the nineteenth Century, is effective, fast and cheap, and is the choice of most leather manufacturers at present. However, chrome tanning is one of the most serious processes of environmental pollution. Chromium, like most heavy metals, is highly toxic. If the control is not proper, the six valent chromium produced during chrome tanning will cause serious pollution to food and water quality.

and Chrome tanning Vegetable tanning is more suitable for tanning with pure plant preparations, which is more environmentally friendly, but of course it is more expensive. For luxury bags, "luxury" itself should mean "persistence", and "sustainability" should not only be durable, but should also include environmental "sustainability". Vegetable tanning should be the chosen skill, both in the past and in the latter.

Under the dome fire lasted for a while, then quietly disappeared in the hot Internet hot spots. New articles, activities and even jokes began to clean up. No one will remember the nerve that you had been stirred up at that moment. Environmental protection, in the absence of personal experience of threats, is not a bone marrow affair in most people's mind.