How to make textile and garment production more sustainable
2023年11月17日 · The rapid expansion of textile and garment production in the past 20 years has been driven by falling production costs and rising consumption. This has led to over-production and fast fashion trends, exacerbating the industry's long-standing environmental and social sustainability challenges.
Can trade facilitation lead textiles to a circular economy?
2024年9月18日 · The textile industry can learn from the successes of e-waste regulations, which improved recycling rates through extended producer responsibility and support the circular economy. The apparel industry contributes 10% of global carbon emissions , exceeding those from international flights and marine shipping combined.
Ending the era of dirty textiles | World Economic Forum
2019年9月17日 · The Ellen MacArthur Foundation put global textile industry emissions at 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent per-year, close to the level of emissions from the automobile industry. Since the industry started taking its huge ecological footprint seriously, various initiatives emerged: one of these is the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate ...
The textile sector can help countries recover from COVID-19
2020年8月10日 · Additionally, the textile industry creates a special opportunity during the pandemic given the number of employment opportunities it can provide. This labour-intensive sector employs millions, and the share of employment in the sector across the total manufacturing workforce is significant in Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) member countries.
4 innovations helping the fashion industry ... - World Economic …
2024年7月24日 · The World Economic Forum’s UpLink innovators are developing ways to boost the fashion industry’s circular economy. Second-hand clothing has come out of the closet, with the sector on-track to account for 10% of the global fashion market in 2024.
Bangladesh's leap from poverty to textile powerhouse offers …
2024年2月16日 · The apparel industry is dominated by a largely female labour force who have benefited from the economy’s growth far from the factory floor. During the past 10 years, Bangladesh has grown its economy into the 35th largest in the world, cut its poverty rate in half and put millions of its citizens to work.
Is fashion bad for the environment? | World Economic Forum
2020年1月31日 · Some apparel companies are starting to buck these trends by joining initiatives to cut back on textile pollution and grow cotton more sustainably. In March, the UN launched the Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, which will coordinate efforts across agencies to make the industry less harmful.
How can Kenya support its textile industry? | World Economic Forum
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Fashion has a huge waste problem. Here's how it can change
2019年2月28日 · Providing designers -– the creative heart of the fashion industry – with the tools to design for circularity is essential to make fashion circular. By focusing on how a product will be made, how it will used, and what will happen to it afterwards, designers can unlock the full value of clothing – rather than seeing it lost to landfill, or ...
Tracking items of clothing can make fashion more sustainable
2021年5月18日 · The fashion industry emits more CO2 than aviation and shipping combined. But attempts to create a fashion circular economy are stalling because of product identification issues. Now a New York start-up has developed a digital passport for clothing. It can track the entire lifecycle of a garment, helping to reduce waste.