Can Biodegradable Clothing Drive The Fashion Industry Towards A More Environmentally Friendly Direction?

Freitag, the originator of environmental protection bag, introduced biodegradable jeans. The jeans were made from flax, cotton and linen, yarn spinning and woven fabrics, and their chemical composition was minimal and no bleaching. But it is not clear whether degradable clothing can promote the fashion industry towards a more environmentally friendly and sustainable development direction.

Some people may think that the old jeans made of cotton denim are better than the popular synthetic fabrics, but this is not the case. Linda Greer, a health project director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, explained: " Cotton denim It needs to be crushed by machine equipment and added with water, oxygen, chemical liquid agent and so on. Solid waste is different. Only a few solid wastes need to be treated.

Luckily, there are some social responsibilities. Clothing company Efforts are being made to reduce the negative impact of the process on the environment, and perhaps to some extent, reduce consumer guilt. For example, they make garbage, traceable materials and organic cotton as raw materials to make clothes. Under the pressure of green organizations, many fashion brands have begun to take action, including Sweden's fast fashion retailer H&M, sports brand Puma, Adidas and so on.

Now, Freitag, an environmental protection bag company from Zurich, Switzerland, has made new progress. This company, known for its recycling of discarded trucks, is the first to introduce environmental protection bags, and recently introduced a biodegradable pair of jeans. The jeans are blended with flax, cotton and linen. Yarn spinning Woven fabrics are made of raw materials with minimal chemical composition and no bleaching.

Traditional denim clothing used for polyester thread, metal buttons and rivets are also difficult to degrade. Freitag has solved this problem. They invented a non spiral button and biodegradable line.

It is not clear whether biodegradable clothing can drive the fashion industry towards a more environmentally friendly and sustainable development direction, but Freitag developed four biodegradable denim fabrics. New jeans It did solve some problems related to clothing environmental protection, such as material spanportation, chemical use and treatment, cotton fabric substitute and so on.

Freitag's classic waist and jeans FivePocketJeans is made of self-developed F-abricDenim denim - a durable twill based on linen and hemp fiber, and 100% can be biodegradable.

E500MaleDenim (E500 men's jeans) is made from a heavy 19 ounces denim, which is now on sale.

MarkusFreitag, founder and creative director, said: "last year, we began to study the use of broken twill for garments, and produce jeans made of bast fiber fabrics around 2500 kilometers round Zurich. One of the characteristics of this jeans is that if you wear them down, you just take the buttons off and put them in the compost, and they will completely degrade.

MarkusFreitag (below left) and DanielFreitag (below the right) two brothers, driven by ecological awareness, founded Freitag in 1993. The first batch was the messenger bag made from recycled truck waterproof cloth. In 2011, the company published magazine Reportagen, focusing on reporting the story of journalists. Last autumn, the company launched a small garment line dominated by sustainable and biodegradable fabrics, expanding the scale of the company's sustainable business.

Markus Freitag said: "F-abric clothing 100% can be degraded, and they can even act as plant soil. We have received very positive feedback, which motivates us to further improve the garment series from materials and other aspects. For those who have not yet noticed that we are also a clothing brand of female consumers, we are particularly concerned (they are our potential customers).

Over the years, Freitag has been intensive in the field of environmental protection bags, and its business is spread all over the world, and has rich experience in the sustainable utilization of materials. Now that they are involved in the field of environmental protection fabrics, will we start a fabric revolution? We will wait and see.

Environmental fabric is another major innovation. Freitag, the environmental protection bag originator, has introduced biodegradable jeans.