Consequences of the Fashion industry to the environment
Tags: Climate Change, Pollution, Vogue, Fashion, Environmental Issues

Is the fashion industry playing any role in minimizing the protecting layer of the environment and is responsible for the after-effects the earth facing? The increasing rate of fashion industries making brands after one another — develop the concept of changing “vogue” and to get rid of previous clothes just after a few months, garments are discarded into the trash also because no worthier to wear due to the cheap quality fabric they made. Many promotions have been seeing continuously whereas, results come up after estimating the average use of clothes by 2000 to 2014 — increased more than 60% in Europe.

Look to see further the production and procedures of fabric and their negative impacts on the environment.

CO2 emissions by fashion industries

When the industry manufactures the fabric, it emits 10% of carbon gas due to consuming oil blow into the air that increases the concentration and makes it unmaintainable for livings due to its negative impact on the environment.

Excess use of water in industries

Those high rate cloths made up of petroleum-based fabric come from polyester material that uses water excessively, it has been taking by observation that the quantity of water in making one shirt of cotton material consume 700 water gallons — enough for an individual to use for drinking eight glasses at regular basis for more than three-years. However, On the other hand, for making a pair of jeans, industries use 2,000 gallons of water at one time that is also an extravagant amount enough for an individual to pour eight glasses of water every day for at least one year. Fashion industries have now become the second-largest consumer of water in the world.

Water pollution by fashion

The fashion industry leads to water pollution on large scale by some procedures in which the process of washing clothes gives out microfibers in a 500, 000 million tons quantity to the wastewater equivalent to — 50 billion plastic bottles that further set out into the oceans carrying disaster to marine life. However, the coloring process finishes with discarded water by textile factories in streams, rivers, and other water bodies create water pollution. Many times Wastewater contains toxic substances toxicity due to its mixing with some substances such as arsenic, lead, mercury, and others that are very dangerous not only for aquatic life but also for people — living by these sources of water that further subdivided eventually to the seas and further to the globe. According to researches, fashion industries are responsible for the whole 20% of industrial water pollution problems in worldwide estimation.

Wastage of garments on landfills

Due to the fact of cheap quality cloths and intolerable fashion vogues, 85% material ended up into garbage trucks each year and get into the process of burning in each second that becomes more problematical to the environment as it takes hundreds of years to spoil if a lot of these clothes throw into landfills just like — plastic takes the time to decompose in the soil.

clothes take time to decompose as plastic takes

How we can stop it?

Individually and collectively, we have to consider some alternatives to prevent the earth from pollution in which as buying quality clothes or wearing a second hand after getting all the necessary treatment should be the preference. Before finalizing things, check the originality whenever going to buy clothes from stores. Sharing garments with others and swapping by time is such a good initiative to create the environment of “caring is sharing” and to compete for the conception of changing “vogue” in fewer months. Buy clothes from ethical stores that promise you to give pure organic and quality garments.