Research (2)

Thesis: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world

 

Source: http://www.forgerecycling.co.uk/blog/fast-fashion/       

 

What I hope to learn from this source:

I want to learn about the clothing statistics of the world, especially about the correlation between consumption pattern of clothing and environment.

 

Notes:

1. - UK household spends £1,800 (£1,700 purchasing clothes + £130 on laundry) a year.

- Every household emits 1.5 tonnes of CO2 from their clothes.This amount of emission is same with travelling 6,000 miles with general car.

 

2. According to Xue et al. (2014), 3.5~4% of tetile waste of the world is from China. China produces 26 miillions tonnes of tetile waste, but they reuse only less than 10%(2.6 millions).

3. In case of ZARA, a fast fashion company, they receive products twice a week. It creates long carbon footprints by travel range with planes.

Weekly cargo received

Weekly cargo sent

 

Final Thoughts:

Fast-fashion creates more CO2 than I think. Also, the recycling rates of fast-fashion is really low, and the low recycling rates make the gobal warming accelerate. Because of it, the money wasting is in active state. Also, fast fashion encourage the fsat change of clothing style, so it is true that fast-fashion contributes to global warming or some environment pollution over regular part.