![Pesticides
• When the topic pollution comes, things inside
the industry alone must not be looked upon.
Even the bi-factors are considered. In that way
[PESTICIDES] stand as a major pollutant in
apparel Industry.
• Pesticides used in cotton production
contribute(pollute) to 25% of most polluting
pesticides which causes harm to not only
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Go green
- 1. Apparel Merchandising Going Green STEPS TAKEN TO GO GREEN
- 2. Green Investment • Green investment is also called as clean investment. • This typically involves investing in companies with sustainable and eco friendly practices. • While some technology offer improvements and increase resource productivity while others simply reduce the adverse environmental effects.
- 3. ‘Going Green’ • ‘Going Green’ and ‘Sustainability’ are the buzz words that many of the business owners use when marketing their product. • A Green lens reduce costs, fights climatic change and open doors to myriad of opportunities. • Before taking steps to go green, first we should find reasons to go green.
- 4. Climatic Factors Influence.. • As climate-change models show, extreme weather not only affects living beings and infrastructure. They have profound affects on business too. • And today when every business is about ‘Go Green’ the vendors have a prominent part in enhancing nature that they have switched to renewability.
- 5. Common Reasons To Go Green.. • Pesticides • Fossil Fuels • Old Clothes • Water Pollution • Fiber wastes • Chemical Fibers
- 6. Pesticides • When the topic pollution comes, things inside the industry alone must not be looked upon. Even the bi-factors are considered. In that way [PESTICIDES] stand as a major pollutant in apparel Industry. • Pesticides used in cotton production contribute(pollute) to 25% of most polluting pesticides which causes harm to not only environment and also to people.
- 7. Fossil Fuels • The role of fossil fuels in apparel industry lies in the Production of synthetic fibers. • Though they don’t cause harm during production process, they emit carbon gases during transport of these apparels. • One of the prominent apparel responsible for this emission is NYLON.
- 8. Old Clothes • Nowadays clothes are more thrown away rather than donating or recycling. • Statistics show that only 14% of the clothes are recycled and only 30% of old clothes are donated. Remaining all find their space in dump yards as landfills. • This results in land pollution and other poisonous gas releases. • Wool is a major contributor of methane release when dumped in.
- 9. Water Pollution • Coming to the most adverse effect of Apparel Industry, its of course the water pollution. • Not only pollute but also degrade its quality and quantity. • Textile process like dyeing and bleaching use lots of water, so in order to obtain this multiple irrigations take place. • And where do you think these water go after usage?! BACK TO WHERE IT CAME FROM.
- 10. Chemical Fibers • Fibers such as polyester and nylon are artificial, manufactured from chemicals which contribute to water pollution and also to other adverse environmental problems when they decompose.
- 11. What does going green mean? • We had a look at all the bad effects of apparel industry. Going green simply means • “TO DRIFT AWAY FROM ALL THESE EFFECTS”
- 12. Strategies To Go Green • Source reduction • Sustainability • Innovation • Cradle-to-cradle design • Viability
- 13. Source Reduction • Source reduction simply means to reduce pollution and waste that causes pollution. • Reducing the source of disasters simply mean the way to a good looking society. • Waste and even the consumption patterns of resources are changed.
- 14. Sustainability • This is an effort to meet social needs with methods that can be continued to be used even in upcoming future without the fear f the resource getting depleted or harming nature and living beings.
- 15. Innovation • Innovation as we all know is simply getting new ideas which can change our lives and also enhance life to the better by not polluting it and keeping it clean. • Maintaining lives clean is one of the biggest development too.
- 16. Cradle-to-cradle Design • ‘Cradle-to-cradle’ term simply mean to end where it began. This is the opposite of cradle to grave system where products are thrown off. • In Cradle-to-cradle design the products are all either reused or recycled. Thus paving way to reduction of waste materials.
- 17. Viability • Viability creates an economic activity center that focuses on products that are more economic friendly. This process helps more to environmental contribution and also to enhance the lives of people.
- 18. Industrial Method • REDUCE WATER IN DYEING AND COLORING.. –Dyeing and finishing of fabrics represent the biggest impact of textile industry in environment , –They consume about 85% of water, 75% of energy and 65% of chemicals. –So reducing impact here helps to the go green impact by a larger level.
- 19. Dyeing Process • During dyeing the role of water is to apply color and to push fabrics through the machine. • Fongs are new machine that uses air to push the fabrics thus saving water. This method saves water by nearly 75%. • Another system called Air dye is used to dye the fabric instead of water through heat press thus saving 70 gallons of water that was used while dyeing.
- 20. Clothing gone green.. • Going green is a concept that has developed not only inside the industry but also in their products. • Fabrics are made eco-friendly using eco-friendly fibers, some eco friendly products are made and other kinds of embellishments are also made popular.
- 21. Embellishment-digital Printing • This is a process where the prints are directly transferred to the fabrics thus reducing 95% use of water, 75% use of energy and also contributing to reduction of fabric waste. • This technique was introduced by designers like Mary Kartrantzou, Alexander McQueen and Bass & Brooke.
- 22. Eco Friendly Products •Recycled PET Bottles •Cork
- 23. Recycled Pet Bottle • Fabrics with some percentage of recycled PET can be found in many labels today. Recently the material stepped up to enter the high-end fashion world with the Ecotech Zegna Solar Jacket. • Even if these fabrics are non-biodegradable their production uses less crude than other products.
- 24. Cork • With wine industry turning to plastic and screw caps , environmental business groups have been pushing for the use of material in other areas to protect portugal’s cork forests. • With leather becoming less popular, cork’s versality started blooming. • It is also impermeable, fire-resistant ,easily cleaned, long lasting and dust and dirt repellent.
- 25. Eco Friendly Fabrics •Hemp •Organic Cotton •Recycled Denim
- 26. Hemp • Hemp is one of the most popular natural or organic fibers used in eco friendly clothing. There are three prominent reasons to why they are used in a wide range. They are: – Productivity - One acre of hemp farming produces as much productivity of about 3 acres of cotton. – Durability -Hemp is considered to be one of the most durable fiber. – Synthetic Options -Hemp is one of the few clothing that gives synthetic kind of outlook.
- 27. Organic Cotton • Organic cotton tops the choice of people when comes to eco-friendly clothing. • The reason for its top priority is because its widely available, affordable and most important it offers a full array of options that relate to green living and the importance of green living in a global scale.
- 28. Recycled Denim • Recycled Denim is becoming increasingly popular clothing among youths due to its vulnerability and also its good looking nature added up to environmental wellness. • The usefulness of ongoing recycled denim products has offered great ecological developments for green living.
- 29. • Not to end with these there are a lot more about Green technology which are to be spoken aloud. Yet this presentation ends here in a view to create awareness of green clothing. • As a part of the future generation lets invent technologies to empower more of these green
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