Sustainable Fashion & Why It Matters

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SUSTAINABLE FASHION & WHY IT MATTERS

December 15, 2019

Sustainable fashion is a movement. The goal is to place environmental, social and ethical improvements with industry and to create new value and deeper wealth for society as a whole. This can be achieved by reducing waste, prolonging the life cycle of materials and reducing harm to the environment as a result of production www.jerryleigh.com/sustainable-fashion-why-it-matters/

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Sustainable Fashion & Why It Matters - Jerry Leigh

Sustainable Clothing HOMEBeing A Sustainable clothing refers to the fabrics that are created or re-purposed from eco-friendly resources.

conscious about our clothing means buying clothes second-hand or from thrift stores, donating, reusing or r clothing, and reducing the amount of clothing one has in general.

The general three principals here are reduce, reuse, recycle.

The Five Main Issues Being Addressed Although all clothing has at least some negative impact on the environment, the overall idea of sustainable fa difference and improve efforts addressing environmental and social concerns. Here are the ve main issues being addressed to provide more sustainable fashion: Water Usage Although the Earth is covered in water, most of it isn’t usable due to saltwater or it being polluted. There are for freshwater for drinking and for agricultural purposes and as a result, brands are looking to see how they much water is being used to make their clothing.

Hazardous Chemicals The hazardous chemicals from dyes and nishes oppose a danger for the workers producing the clothing as w community water sources. Coming up with innovative alternatives to dyes and nishes from the productive Short Lifecycle With brands constantly releasing new designs and consumers constantly purchasing, the biggest goal in sust buy less and wear their current clothing longer.

Waste This is where the whole concept of reduce, reuse, recycle comes in. There should be an effective way to mak again whether that’s repairing garments or creating new pieces out of the old.

Agriculture Utilizing organic cotton, linen and other bers helps reduce the water consumption needed to make clothing conventional growing methods. Â

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