Sustainable Design Or New Standard For Garment Industry

< p > > a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_z.asp" > < /a >, a competition on the theme of sustainable fashion design began in Hongkong, which began to pay attention to the waste and resource consumption behind the fashion industry.

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The P Ecochic clothing sustainable fashion design competition, launched by Hongkong Redress group, has been launched. It is necessary to register before August 15th.

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< p > data show that a long sleeved T-shirt costs 250 grams of cotton and at least 1750 liters of water in the production process.

In addition, from production to destruction, it is necessary to go through five procedures, namely raw material production, clothing processing, finished product pportation, use and waste clothing treatment, which produce about 1.6 kilograms of carbon emissions.

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< p > this phenomenon is more prominent in fast fashion brands.

The fast fashion industry that wins the fast operation of the supply chain, apart from contributing part of the GDP, has brought about a lot of bad consequences that prompted people to buy a lot of products that do not need to buy. This makes a large number of fast fashion products become disposable consumer goods. If the enterprises themselves do not solve them, they will cause great waste of the earth resources.

In addition, as fast fashion products pursue rapid response to the extreme market, the resource consumption caused by speed in the production process is also amazing.

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< p > take H&M as an example. < a href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp > > textile > /a > the wet process (including dyeing, cleaning, printing and fabric finishing) produces a lot of waste water containing toxic and harmful substances.

In the garment industry, the consumption of H&M clothes is even more amazing.

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Rui Meng, a professor of Finance and accounting at CEIBS, points out that if the environmental cost is taken into consideration, the business mode of P may change.

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< p > in developed countries, environmental quality standards, pollutant discharge standards, environmental protection standards, environmental protection methods and environmental protection standards are the problems that must be solved in an enterprise's production and operation.

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< p > Xia Yanzhi, chief scientist of the National Key Laboratory of fiber new materials, Qiingdao University, told Beijing Business Daily that environmental standards have been a high priority for the domestic garment industry, but there is not yet a law or regulation to regulate them.

This is why many clothing brands choose to manufacture and process in China.

At the same time, some clothes were donated to rural areas or remote areas, but when they got there, they were turned into garbage.

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< p > he suggested that in fact, the garment recycling industry could be developed, and the whole garment industry could be built up from the chain of production, processing, logistics, sales, use and waste disposal to create a green and intensive industry environment.

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< p > it is learnt that the Ecochic event will be held in 2011. The winners will be able to cooperate with the world's top fashion magazines to publish their personal works. They will design staff clothing for the five star hotel langting hotel in Hongkong, and visit the second major jewelry brands in the United States, including John Hardy.

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