How To Make Fashionable Jeans Green, Environment-Friendly, Low-Carbon And Healthy

Another common point is that both expensive and cheap jeans mean evil.

Jeans, the "fashion piece" that almost everyone has in modern society, are built on the huge damage to the ecological environment and the workers on the water line.

As one of the world's largest textile exporters, China has more than 50000 textile factories in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Shandong. The textile industry has provided China with a large number of employment opportunities, and the textile products continuously exported to all parts of the world have also brought China a large amount of income.

At the same time, the current situation of China's processing industry is that the local income may be only 1% of the processing fees for products, but in our land, it has left 100% of the pollution and damage.

In the German documentary "The Price of Jeans", the pollution and harm caused by the production of jeans completely overturned people's understanding of jeans and the fashion industry, and the dark scenes were also shocking.

A pair of jeans=3480 liters of water, which is both wasting and polluting.

The sewage from some cowboy washing plants is directly discharged into small rivers without any treatment, and these rivers finally flow into big rivers and seas.

Jeans are almost made of water. From cotton fields to cotton cloth to washing machines, a pair of jeans actually needs 3480 liters of water in its lifetime. If an adult needs to consume two liters of water every day, the water consumption of a pair of jeans is enough to meet the water consumption of an adult for nearly five years.

Maybe you will retort that cotton cloth is not only used to make jeans. If jeans cost so much water, wouldn't other cotton products be the same?

No, you are wrong. It is much worse, because other cotton clothes are not like jeans. They need a lot of chemical materials to achieve the effect of old washing. If you don't know what is used washing, the faded part near the knee of the jeans, the wrinkles on the thigh, and the worn out part in some styles are all artificially created "used" effects.

The sand washing process of cowboys will make the production workers and users suffer from silicosis, which is known as silicosis. Silicosis is a kind of pneumoconiosis and a serious occupational disease. Free silica dust accumulates on human alveoli through the respiratory tract, affecting gas exchange. Finally, human alveoli lose their function and all lung tissues become fibrotic. In the words of ordinary people, the lung turns into a lump of earth.

Acrylic resin, adhesive, bleaching powder, phenolic compounds, even carbon compounds, hypochlorite, potassium metal, azo dyes, potassium permanganate, chromium, cadmium and other heavy metal materials that you can or cannot name are all necessities to make jeans "fashionable".

NPE is widely used in printing and dyeing and washing processes in textile production. When discharged into the environment, it will quickly decompose into the more toxic environmental hormone nonylphenol. Nonylphenol has strong toxicity to aquatic organisms, which can interfere with endocrine system and affect reproductive system. At the same time, it is persistent and difficult to degrade, and can be accumulated through the food chain to pollute the environment.

Phthalates can enter the human body through hand to mouth contact and have reproductive toxicity, which can lead to a decrease in the number of sperm and female infertility. The threat to children and pregnant women deserves special attention.

Every ton of jeans will pollute 200 tons of water. More intuitively, every kilogram, that is, three pairs of jeans, needs 200 liters of water. About 2500 chemicals will be used in the dyeing and finishing process of different denim products.

If the discharged water is treated according to the standard, it is no longer sewage, but toxic water. The odor is irritating. If you touch it carelessly, your skin will itch or even fester.

In order to meet the quality inspection standards at the time of export, the manufacturer of jeans will repeatedly wash the jeans so that customers in Europe and the United States will not be aware of the presence of chemicals. A pair of jeans will undergo 20 times of dehydration and polishing before leaving the factory, and then be worn, bleached and repainted. In order to wash as clean as possible, a large amount of surfactant will be added to the water. After that, basically without any treatment, the sewage was directly discharged into ditches and finally into rivers and seas.

However, this kind of washing is just a passing act, which makes jeans "smell" less pungent. In fact, the harm to human beings has not been significantly reduced. When the skin sweats, these toxic and carcinogenic substances hidden in jeans will be released and directly contact your skin. After wasting and polluting so much water, what we have achieved is nothing but self deception.

The price of fashion is the balance of the ecological environment on which we live, and the health and life of countless cheap labor. Who is the murderer and accomplice in the whole tragedy? Who will pay for it now and in the future? There is a similar tragedy behind every flowing commodity, not just jeans.

The industry has been developing new environmental protection products, but the process is limited to the interests of production machinery, chemicals, and production enterprises for various reasons. It has become more complex processes, at most reducing water use and other aspects. Chemicals pursue harmful content and adhere to the so-called acceptance range

There has been no breakthrough in the improvement of bottom removal process.

Recently, environmental protection research expert Zeng Ye textile technology studio has developed bionic denim DENIM-SIM, which simplifies the cattle production process without dyeing, and uses anhydrous biological printing and coloring, [germ cloth printing and coating clothing simple and common washing]. The whole process is waterless, and it only takes 5 minutes of simple and common washing after the clothing is finished. It also supports DIY to wash water at home, discharge clean water, and wipe the old and white if necessary, The desired effect can be achieved by simply washing water after gently wiping with a brush, which really subverts the tradition. Moreover, all bionic denim products have undergone physical antibacterial, odor proof, mite proof, far-infrared functional treatment, and the products have achieved the goal of green environmental protection and low-carbon health.