Attention: The Current Situation Of Sustainable Recycling And Carbon Footprint Products In China'S Textile Industry

With the deepening of sustainable fashion exploration, there are also clothing brands trying to understand the production of raw materials and raw data of manufacturing links through digital traceability information, so as to help achieve the goal of "double carbon".

Current situation of sustainable recycling and carbon footprint products in China's textile and garment industry

Earlier on the "China brand carbon neutralization · acceleration action", the actual data carbon footprint products of Xinjiang cotton were released, and the information traceability was realized through the introduction of carbon footprint label; Through the digital certification of carbon neutral products, realize the accounting of carbon emission source data in the whole life cycle of export products.

Despite the frequent actions of enterprises, there are still some challenges in practice.

It is still difficult for textile and garment enterprises to introduce digital means such as carbon footprint label to boost the realization of "double carbon" target. In the production process of textile and garment products, the standards of carbon emission collection, calculation and detection are not perfect, and there is no uniform carbon index standard covering all products.

According to the data of China Recycling Economy Association, about 26 million tons of used clothes are thrown into the garbage can every year, with the comprehensive utilization rate less than 10%. China's textile and garment industry is in the low-end state in the product recycling link, and the production process has secondary pollution.

In the future, textile and garment enterprises need to establish a long-term mechanism, continuously explore and improve the whole production process of series products, and adhere to the digital carbon footprint practice with a large amount of cost, so as to achieve real sustainable fashion.

Challenges and opportunities coexist

According to the United Nations data, the total carbon emission of textile and clothing industry exceeds the total emission of all international flights and shipping, accounting for 10% of the global carbon emission, which is the second largest pollution industry after the oil industry.

There are a lot of pollution release in the process of product manufacturing in the clothing industry. The implementation of sustainable fashion in the textile and garment industry will require to ensure that the R & D, manufacturing and procurement are all green processes, which will change the manufacturing technology, production mode and design standards of enterprises in an all-round way. The sustainable fashion of "carbon neutral" inevitably faces many challenges.

The production process of textile and garment products is too long, and there are carbon emissions in each link. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a series of carbon emission accounting standards and methods. As the main raw material of textile and garment industry, cotton has different carbon emissions in each production cycle from the production place, the difference between organic and non organic, to manufacturing, transportation and printing and dyeing.

Sustainable fashion also faces a common consumer cognitive problem.

Although consumers' awareness of environmental protection is gradually increasing, it is far from being willing to pay a premium for environmental protection and social responsibility. There will be no mutual supply and demand promotion between enterprises and consumers.

However, with the deepening of "double carbon" concept, the future development of textile and clothing industry is still full of opportunities. Textile and clothing brands adhere to the concept of "double carbon" development, in the future, it will be possible to seize new opportunities and opportunities to become an international fashion brand going global.