The lineal economy model that has ruled the industries for at least 20 years has permited us an overconsumption of products at low prices. But ¿which are the real repercusions behind this accelerated industry?
In the last decade, the main goal of enterprises has been the financial growth. This without considering meassuring the real impacts caused by this growth
We have to consider that low cost garmets are possbile due to a cost reduction in their manufacturing process. This means there is always someone paying the real cost of clothes with unethical practices, poor quality, among others actions that had to be done to be able to offer those cheap prices.
The fast fashion model creates around 52 low cost collections instear of the usual 2 to 4 that the fashion industry normally do. This creates huge social and environmental conscecuences.
There are many issues along the chain of value, one of them is the manufacutring process where unethical and unfair practices take place exploiting human and natural resources to offer cheap and fast products for an accelerated demand
We enlisted some of the activities that permit a low cost sistem:
Trends and today´s culture promotes the overconsumption.
We can find data that estimates a garmen is used 7 times before being discarted, a clear example of this are the 35 kg of textile waste that are created per person every year world wide.
Nowadays we are facing a critical global situation that invites us to act fast and join the change.
We need to understar that everything is connected, so we can act from our rol as a consumer, entrepreneur, business, manufacturer, or goverment to implement the needed meassurements to change into a more responsible versión of ourselves.
If we are part of the problem, we have the enormous opportunity to be part of the solution.
The responsibility to be more sustaintable has a bug potential to change from a consumer perspective, having better habits and supporting the right changes for the industry with every purchase.
Nonetheless, designers have also a huge responsibility to look for new alternatives for better and a more responsible design that permits us to mitigate today´s impacts.
If you are a designer with an interest in promoting a responsible and sustaintable fashion industry, we want to invite you to send us your proposals and participate in our sustaintable fashion contest! More info here – Fashion Alive.
¿How to give a second life to our garments?
The report “A scap of difference: why fashion offcuts don´t need to end up in landfills” de National Geographic (Langenheim, 2019. mentioned that every year around 80 thousand million new clothes are created.
During their manufacturing process around 15% of every roll of fabric become instan waste.
Only in Europe around 8 million tons of textile waste are generated every year.
¿Cómo dar una segunda vida a nuestras prendas? fin de ciclo y upcycling.
Cada año se fabrican 80 mil millones de prendas nuevas.
Durante su fabricación se cree que el 15 % de cada rollo de tela pasa a ser deshecho textil.
según el artículo “A scap of difference: why fashion offcuts don´t need to end up in landfills” de National Geographic (Langenheim, 2019.
Únicamente en la unión europea se estima que se generan alrededor de 8 millones de toneladas de residuos textiles al año.
En la industria de la moda, hasta un 30 % de lo que producen las marcas de ropa termina en la basura, o incinerado. Frente a este escenario, el reciclaje surge como una forma de paliar el problema. Sin embargo, en materia de cuidado medioambiental, no todo vale. Existen diferencias importantes en maneras de reciclar y como consumidores, diseñadores o fabricantes es nuestra obligación tomar consciencia de estos conceptos.
¿How to give a second life to our garments?
The report “A scap of difference: why fashion offcuts don´t need to end up in landfills” de National Geographic (Langenheim, 2019. mentioned that every year around 80 thousand million new clothes are created.
During their manufacturing process around 15% of every roll of fabric become instan waste.
Only in Europe around 8 million tons of textile waste are generated every year.
¿Cómo dar una segunda vida a nuestras prendas? fin de ciclo y upcycling.
Cada año se fabrican 80 mil millones de prendas nuevas.
Durante su fabricación se cree que el 15 % de cada rollo de tela pasa a ser deshecho textil.
según el artículo “A scap of difference: why fashion offcuts don´t need to end up in landfills” de National Geographic (Langenheim, 2019.
Únicamente en la unión europea se estima que se generan alrededor de 8 millones de toneladas de residuos textiles al año.
¿How to give a second life to our garments?
The report “A scap of difference: why fashion offcuts don´t need to end up in landfills” de National Geographic (Langenheim, 2019. mentioned that every year around 80 thousand million new clothes are created.
During their manufacturing process around 15% of every roll of fabric become instan waste.
Only in Europe around 8 million tons of textile waste are generated every year.
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