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Increasing the violence of fast fashion, some brands and the people behind those brands have pocketed millions of dollars. The level of moderation is spreading to infinity. The average lifespan of a garment is decreasing. The world is becoming a little bit of a waste of fashion. Carbon is increasing. In contrast, all the movements like slow fashion, eco-friendly fashion, limited range of upcycling and recycling, thrift shops have started again. Let's shed light on the sweet and sour perspective of the fashion industry and what we have to do.
Where is the difficulty of washing clothes
You think, with your money you will do fashion. You are interested in fast fashion. After uploading a picture of one of your clothes on social media, you no longer want to wear it. The stars become 'news' when they wear the same dress twice! In this way, the fashion industry has become entangled in the fallacy of fast fashion. Sales of the brands have increased by leaps and bounds. Where is the problem? There is a problem. Fiber to Fashion.com has published a special report on this subject. The fabric that the garment is made of, consumes a lot of natural energy, space, and water. Cotton is one of the most widely used fabrics in the fashion industry. It takes 20,000 liters of water to produce the cotton needed for the amount of cloth needed to make a cotton T-shirt. About 20% of the world's water is consumed by the fashion industry. It comes with energy-natural and artificial. The garments produced with these are rapidly turning into waste. It is contributing to environmental pollution in many ways by landfill, air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution. According to Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP), 140 million pounds (1,853 crore) worth of clothes is dumped in the UK every year. And they just landfill.
What is discarded clothing?
When we throw away any clothes, what actually happens? The BBC has published a report titled 'Why Clothes Are Hard to Recycle'. According to the report, 83 percent of clothing is either burned, discarded or dumped in landfills. 12 percent of clothing is downcycled into mattresses, cleaning clothes, rugs, luscious or other low-cost items. Only 1 percent are upcycled and become new clothes. Clothing worth বিল 100 billion is thrown away every year. The value of the Bangladeshi currency is 6 thousand 46 crore rupees.
Germany is the least wasteful country in the fashion industry. They also make new clothes by recycling only 50 percent of the discarded clothes. In 2017 alone, 11 lakh tons of fabric were lost. Even more tragic is the fact that 83 percent of it is preconceived notion waste. That is, consumers did not buy or use those clothes. The amount of such old unused fabrics was 6 lakh tons. This is because the consumer does not have to go through an 'out of stock' experience, for which many brands keep the surplus stock up to 10 percent. But now there are several brands around the world that are working on sustainable and eco-friendly fashion.
A A B of Garment Waste
According to Business Insider, waste is generated at every stage of the textile industry. Waste is produced in spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing, garment manufacturing, post-consumption. Altogether all this waste is divided into three parts. Pre-Consumer Textile Waste, Post-Consumer Textile Waste, and Industrial Textile Waste.
The waste generated inside the garments before it reaches the hands of the consumer textile waste or the consumer includes false fabrics, defective fabrics or clothing samples, fabric fibers, excess fabrics and many more. About 15% of the fabric used in the garment industry is wasted as pre-consumer textile waste. This type of waste can be used to make various things. For example, Bangladeshi entrepreneur Mamunur Rahman is making Ella Pad with fake garments. Initially, women garment workers use their own hand-made panties and pads during the period. This entrepreneur is working to produce it commercially. In addition, synthetic pre-consumer textile waste can be used to make many more things, including soundproofing applications.
If a garment is no longer worn, worn out, worn out, does not conform to the current fashion, or at least the consumer no longer wants to wear it, it becomes a post-consumer textile waste. Some of them are used for cleaning furniture and houses. But most are discarded. In Bangladesh, in the eighties and nineties, there was a huge market of second-hand cloth in Bangabazar and it was very popular among the consumers. However, a lot of work has been done on these discarded clothes during the Corona period. Many are working with second-hand clothes and apparel. There are also several clothing brands in the global fashion industry that deal only with second-hand clothing. They sell them by upcycling. ‘Chol’ is such a Bangladeshi clothing company. There is an organization called 'Bangladesh Thrift' on Instagram that sells only second-hand clothes. Garment waste will decrease a lot of people's attitudes towards second-hand clothing change and acceptability increases. Again many multinational retail brands have started selling second-hand clothing in their outlets. Industrial textile waste, on the other hand, is a product that is declared 'unfit' or 'discarded' before it reaches the consumer.
By 2050, three times the current amount of natural resources will be needed to meet consumer demand. Sustainable fashion is one of the solutions to reduce this negative impact.
Why do we want a sustainable fashion industry?
Let's start with awkward statistics. According to a study by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), 1,500 billion liters of water are used every year to wash and dye garments and cotton in garment factories. After being used by factories, this toxic water is discharged into rivers and canals. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), greenhouse gas and waste emissions for the fashion industry will increase by 60 percent by 2030. By 2050, three times the current amount of natural resources will be needed to meet consumer demand. Sustainable fashion is one of the solutions to reduce this negative impact.
Production in the fashion industry has doubled in just 15 years. Clothing prices have also come down within the reach of the middle class. Clothing prices are now lower than ever. The income of the lower middle class and the middle class has also increased. All in all, a large class now wears twice as much clothing as it did 15 years ago. As a result, the amount of waste generated from fashion is now higher than at any time in the past. People don't even use 40 percent of the clothes they used to wear. The average lifespan of a garment is two years and two months. And it is worn an average of 8 to 10 times.
Speaking of some other brands
The Forward Lab has given a different look to these brands. There is a company called Patagonia, which sells torn or old clothes to consumers. Sometimes the consumer is given new clothes instead of old ones according to his needs. Nudy Jeans, along with several other companies, sends and sends jeans to consumers for free. DIPP has developed around the second-hand industry. Dipp makes old clothes new instead of sending them to charity shops. Adds value. They are sold again as new. For the second, third, and even fourth time, the clothes come back to life in Dipp. Another exceptional company is the French company Mysonkle. Its entrepreneur is mother and daughter. They sew clothes with all hands. On the other hand, a shoe company called TRMTab makes shoes with old clothes and leather. This reduces the amount of landfills.
Such recycling and upcycling have also started in Bangladesh. Particularly significant in this case is ‘chalk. It is making new outfits with old clothes.
What will we do
We live in a world where many times more clothing is produced than is needed. And in the 21st century, the world is full of garments. The pressure is on cotton production and yarn. More than 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions come from the garment industry. Environmental pollution through fashion pollution or clothing has deepened the foreheads of environmentalists. Thus the world is becoming uninhabitable day by day. And the fashion industry is playing a huge role there. The garment industry is in second place among the causes of environmental pollution. The concept of fast fashion has accelerated this level of environmental pollution. The fashion industry released an average of two collections in 2000.
The maximum lifespan of a garment average three years. The clothes become old dirty. Torn. Doesn't go with the current trend. If you wear a garment for more than 9 months, then the carbon production through that garment and the wastage of water used behind that garment is reduced by up to 30 percent.
In 2011, it introduced consumers to an average of five collections. In this case, the clothing brand Zara has surpassed everyone. They publish 24 collections a year. H&M brings out 12 to 16 collections. As a result of fast fashion, wardrobes are being filled with new clothes. But the world is becoming uninhabitable. In such a situation, we as ordinary consumers have to do.
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