Development And Environment Are Contradictions. How Much Pressure Do They Create? They Know It.

Despite the improvement, clothing remains the fourth largest environmental killer in the UK, after housing, pportation and food.

The Environmental Audit Committee recently announced the launch of a fast fashion research project aimed at studying fast.

The product life cycle, carbon emissions and the environmental impact of water use will also provide solutions to reduce waste and pollution.

The agency is seeking advice and funding for its investigation. The first hearing will be held in September 30th this year.

Consumers and regulators have realized the tremendous environmental impact of the production, washing and discarding processes of the fashion industry.

In 2015, a total of 300 thousand tons of clothing were discarded in Britain, compared with 50 thousand tons in 2012, according to a study by Wrap environmental protection group.

Despite the improvement, clothing remains the fourth largest environmental killer in the UK, after housing, pportation and food.

The fashion industry is very important to the UK. According to the British Fashion Council, the fashion industry contributes 30 billion pounds a year to GDP in Britain.

In the past ten years, the globalization and fast fashion business mode of fashion industry has caused great pressure on the environment: fast fashion encourages consumers to lose after use. Mass production of so-called fashionable clothes greatly shortens the service life of clothing.

Those discarded clothes enter the landfill and produce methane, which is put into the atmosphere.

Mary Creagh, chairman of the UK environmental review board, said: "fashion development should not be at the cost of hurting the earth. At present, the way we design, produce and discarding garments will greatly damage the environment.

In the process of garment production, a large amount of toxic chemicals and carbon dioxide will be generated.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation foundation research survey shows that if the current growth rate continues to grow, the global annual carbon budget will be depleted within a quarter by 2050.

Stella McCartney, a British designer who is known for his environmental awareness, has said that the booming fashion industry still uses the medieval antiquated methods in manufacturing methods, so that modernization needs to be modernized to completely reduce the damage to the environment.

"Basically, the fashion industry cuts down 150 million trees a year, and every second, a truckload of clothes is delivered to the landfill," she said.

The impact of fast fashion on the environment is just a corner of the iceberg, "Mary Creagh" says: "every time you wash your clothes, thousands of plastic fibers will flow into the sewers and the ocean.

Our survey will focus on how the fashion industry can reinvent itself and maintain sustainable development at the same time of prosperity.

According to the 2017 Ellen MacArthur Foundation Foundation report, the textile industry produces about 12 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, exceeding the total of all international and marine emissions of greenhouse gases.

The annual cost of recycled waste is about $500 billion. The clothing industry has exported 500 thousand tons of microfiber to the global ocean annually, equivalent to 50 billion plastic bottles.

At present, many fashion brands and retailers are committed to improving their own sustainable development capabilities, such as: the largest department store in the UK, John Lewis, has launched a pilot buyback plan to buy clothes that customers do not want.

In May, Nike, H&M, Burberry and Gap announced that they joined the Make Fashion Circular program launched by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation foundation through recycling.

And products to reduce global fashion.

Waste.

Fast fashion giant H&M and Zara launched store recycling projects, placing clothing recycling bins in stores, and encouraging consumers to reduce old clothes' discarding.

The outdoor brand Patagonia and The North Face have launched the garment repair and recycling project.