Follow Up: Not Every Pair Of Jeans Is Destroying Our Future.

Today, I believe a lot of friends in the cowboy industry are covered by an article. "Every pair of jeans you wear is destroying our future."

From a 2012 documentary "Der Preis der Blue-Jeans", the article focuses on Cowboys

Problems such as water consumption, chemical use and occupational health of workers in the processing industry have raised a series of questions and suggestions, which has caused great repercussions.

Cowboy

A member of the production industry is familiar with the washing, old and various processing of jeans that are described in the clip, and here we do not have the idea of "washing the floor" and "floating green".

The reading volume of article one hundred thousand + shows the deep concern of the consumers from the practitioners to the social sectors.

Therefore, we hope to provide more information for all sectors of the society to understand that many practitioners in the tannin industry are doing more environmentally friendly and socially responsible innovation and development.

Not every single item.

They are destroying our future.

More environmentally friendly fabrics

As the most important part of clothing, fabrics should be more responsible for sustainable development. We also see that more natural, organic and recycled materials have been developed and applied on denim fabrics.

First, let's look at cotton.

According to the results of Global Lifestyle MonitorTM, consumers think cotton is the safest fiber to the environment, and cotton is the most widely used raw material for cowboy fabrics. The industry has made extraordinary efforts to provide sustainable cotton production.

Now we will introduce a few of them.

Mei cotton COTTON USATM

Advanced technology can save more land, water and energy, reduce soil erosion and reduce pesticide dosage per unit output.

Through advanced production operation, we can save more than 1 billion litres of tractor fuel annually, while American cotton is resistant to drought and heat, and 2/3 of US cotton needs no irrigation. Natural rainfall can meet its water demand.

The sustainable development of traditional cotton and organic cotton cultivation in the United States, the United States cotton industry supports the sustainability of agricultural production and fulfil environmental, economic, health and social responsibilities.

There are more than 200 member enterprises worldwide.

Cotton LeadsTM

The project is co founded by the Australian cotton industry and the US cotton industry, adhering to the five core principles based on sustainable development, best practice application and supply chain traceability, aiming to provide a reliable and responsible supply chain solution for cotton producers.

At present, more than 300 members are involved.

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BCI

The Better Cotton Initiative, the better cotton initiative, aims at making the planting and production of cotton more conducive to cotton growers, more conducive to planting environment and more conducive to the future development of the industry.

There are more than 700 member enterprises worldwide.

Organic cotton

Refers to the process of agricultural production, organic fertilizer, biological control of pests and diseases, natural farming management mainly, do not use any chemical products, from seed selection to agricultural products all natural pollution-free cultivation mode of cotton production.

There are different standards in the world, such as OCS and GOTS certification.

In addition to cotton, the industry is also actively applying various new types of raw materials.

Tencel TENCEL

Tencel is the brand of Austria's LAN se group, and the revolutionary Tencel fiber production process represents the greatest achievement of cellulose fiber technology, the innovative solution spinning method.

In the unique closed production process, the solvent can be recycled almost 100%, and the special technology has won the "European environmental award" issued by the European Union.

The denim fabric made of Tencel's has excellent moisture management function, soft skin care, and can reduce bacterial growth, good drape and gloss.

Repreve cycle recycled polyester fiber

The Unifi products of the United States are made of recycled materials. On average, each kilogram of Repreve yarn can save 4.17 litres of petrol compared with the original polyester fiber.

Sorona franchise

Sorona fiber represents the perfect combination of high performance and sustainable development. By weight ratio, 37% of its raw materials come from renewable resources, and has unique durability, comfort and elasticity and excellent resilience.

Flax

Natural plant fiber has the characteristics of sweat absorption, good air permeability, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, straight and smooth.

Coffee carbon fiber

The coffee residue after use is recovered and reused. After high temperature calcination treatment, the crystal direction and the gap of coffee dregs present the best state. The fabric has the functions of deodorization, quick drying, environmental protection and reuse.

More environmentally friendly clothes washing water

The biggest difference between cowboy appearance and style than that of other garments is that it needs to be built by washing process. Traditional processes include sand washing, grinding, pickling or combination of various processes to create old and fading effects, which involve a large amount of water and chemicals in the process.

However, at present, more innovative and advanced technologies are being used in the industry, and laser and ozone technologies are being used to completely change the processing of jeans.

Jeanologia

The laser and ozone facilities of Jeanologia, Spain, can reduce 60% of water and energy and 85% of chemicals. Using laser to carve patterns and textures on ready-made fabrics can also replace hand-made cat whiskers and sanding processes when jeans are washed, which greatly saves manpower costs and reduces pollution. At the same time, it can still create an authentic retro style and various washing details.

The following is a series of LightSensitive series produced by the October 2015 Shanghai exhibition and Jeanologia, which make use of laser and ozone technology to create virtual sluice style and classic whitening and old effect.

Tonello

The latest eco friendly garment processing technology of Italy Tonello company, such as NOSTONE and WATER BUSH technology, has created exquisite stone washing and whitening effects without pumice and Potassium Permanganate.

More environmentally friendly production

In addition to raw materials, many denim enterprises that attach importance to sustainable development have invested huge sums of money in upgrading equipment and improving technology, and in dyeing, weaving, finishing and other auxiliary facilities, reducing emissions, improving efficiency and recycling.

The author is limited in knowledge and fails to record the achievements of the industry in this field. He can only share some experiences of Beijiang textile in green environmental protection factory for your reference.

Advanced Denim

Using the innovative dyeing technology of Archroma company, the 10 dyeing grooves needed in the traditional cowboy dyeing process were reduced to 1, reducing the consumption of water and electricity consumption by 85% and 78% respectively, while maintaining good dyeing permeability and color fastness.

Sweet Indigo

The innovative dyeing process introduced by Beijiang textile uses the new reduction technology instead of the insurance powder to reduce the effect of the insurance powder on the effluent after dyeing.

According to the company's measurement, the COD value of dyeing effluent has dropped by more than 60%, thereby reducing the pressure of sewage treatment plants.

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The alkali recovery unit will recycle and recycle the waste alkali of the whole mercerizing process.

Sewage treatment and organic farms

Beijiang textile has built its own sewage treatment plant in the factory area with a daily handling capacity of 3000 tons. At the same time, it has an organic farm covering an area of more than 100 mu near the factory area, planting trees in an environmentally friendly way, planting vegetables and raising poultry, and supplying the factory canteens for the finished products, so that employees can enjoy organic food.

Solar photovoltaic power generation

Beijiang textile has invested more than 200 RMB yuan. At present, the 220 kW solar photovoltaic distributed system is being installed on the roof of the B warehouse. It is expected to be completed in June 2016 and will generate electricity of about 200 thousand kwh per year. It can reduce CO2 emissions by 200 tons per year.

Environmental protection is a heavy but unavoidable problem for the manufacturing industry.

The above information sharing is aimed at providing more references for colleagues and consumers concerned about the development of jeans industry.

How to make cowboy production more sustainable development requires concerted efforts and more resources and technological innovation.

The road is still long. "Washing the land" or "floating green" is good.