Producing textiles is an environmentally damaging process. Textiles consume vast quantities of natural resources, like water, oil and land, they use toxic chemicals and generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. But it’s not just what we put into textile and fashion production – it is also what comes out during the production and consumer use processes.
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Unfortunately, millions of tonnes of textiles are discarded every year. In Europe and America, it is estimated that 10 million tonnes of textiles are discarded every year.1 In China the total annual
production of pre and post-consumer textile waste is estimated to be over 20 million tonnes.2 Not only does this textile waste pollute our environment and clog landfills around the world, but the precious resources that went into making these textiles are wasted. The good news is that by reusing textile waste, designers can divert textile waste away from landfill and prolong the lifecycle of the textile material.
The exciting opportunity is that textiles are almost 100 percent recyclable and they have the potential to meet our needs several times over. This means that we should creatively and environmentally strive to never discard or dump textiles away – every again!