{"id":566,"date":"2019-12-07T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:57:13","slug":"trends-impacts-in-the-textile-chain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/en\/trends-impacts-in-the-textile-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends and impacts in the textile chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/media\/Global-materials-flow-MFC-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/media\/Global-materials-flow-MFC-graphic.png 796w, https:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/media\/Global-materials-flow-MFC-graphic-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wieland.nl\/media\/Global-materials-flow-MFC-graphic-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Existing trends in the linear and globally organized textile industry, have an enormous negative impact on the development of people, the planet and the economy. The sector is at the eve of an epic transition. Below this is illustrated by some striking data.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, the global fashion industry generated revenues of 1.3 trillion dollar and the sector employed over 300 million people (EMF, 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garments represent more than 60% of the total use of textiles worldwide (EMF, 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast fashion: between 2000 and 2015, the number of garments doubled from approximately 50 billion to over 100 billion garments. More than half ends up at dumpsites or in waste incinerator plants (EMF, 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Europe and the United States, every year over 20 million tons of used and unused clothes end up at dumpsites or in waste incinerator plants (EMF, 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New garments are being thrown away very quickly. At average, a fast fashion garment is thrown away within one year after being purchased (EMF, 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millions of employees in the textile industry are working under miserable and dangerous working conditions, due to unsafe production processes and the use of toxics. With its strong focus on low costs and short delivery times, the (fast fashion) industry exerts a lot of pressure on employees to make long days under harsh conditions and against very low wages. Whereas the textile industry contributes to employability, its activities also have a negative impact on local communities in developing countries or emerging economies, such as child labor or even slavery, the illegal discharge of polluted wastewater in local rivers that are also being used by local fishermen and for (drinking) water supplies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast fashion is an important factor in the huge waste of (raw materials for) garments. Less than 1% of the total amount of raw materials that have been used for the production of garments, is being re-used for the production of new garments. This implies a loss of 100 billion dollars every year. In the whole industry only about 13% of used raw materials is being re-used one way or the other. Mainly, this concerns the down-cycling of textile materials to less valuable products, such as insulation material and cleaning cloths, that are at the end of their lifecycle (EMF, 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, the global textile production contributed to emissions of 1.2 gigaton <\/span>CO<sub>2<\/sub><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-equivalents, which is more than the total emissions of the international aviation and shipping sector together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The textile industry has also a huge share in the global waste and the pollution of water:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the production of textiles (including the production of cotton), worldwide 93 trillion liters of water is being used, in other words: 93,000,000,000,000 liter water. The enormous water consumption contributes to the (deterioration of ) issues related to water supplies in many regions with a shortage of water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20% of the global water pollution by the industry is caused by the coloring and processing of raw materials for textiles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raw materials used in textiles, such as polyester, nylon and acryl contribute to the plastic soup in our oceans; it is estimated that about 0.5 million tons of plastic microfibers are polluting the oceans due to rinsing while washing clothes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the 28 pounds of textiles every Dutch citizen throws away annually, only 8 pounds (30%) is collected in separate fractions (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milieucentraal.nl\/minder-afval\/afval-scheiden-cijfers-en-kilos\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milieucentraal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). In 2015, approximately 73,000 tons of discarded textiles have been collected separately in the Netherlands (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/opendata.cbs.nl\/statline\/#\/CBS\/nl\/dataset\/83558NED\/table?ts=1534845748428\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBS Statline, 2018<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). This means that in 2015 over 170,000 tons of textiles ended up as residual waste and, finally, in waste incinerator plants.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the exploding demand and supply of new garments continues, according to a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Business-As-Usual\u2019 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scenario (the so-called BAU scenario), in 2050 the total sales of garments would amount to approximately 160 million tons of garments: three times more than in 2015. Without a radical system change towards a circular textile economy, the negative impact on the environment will be catastrophic. In the BAU scenario, in 2050 the textile industry would:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take up 26% of the total <\/span>CO<sub>2-<\/sub><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">budget at a maximum rise in temperature of 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celsius\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">use approximately 300 million tons of non-renewable raw materials (such as oil) annually<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be partly responsible for the accumulation of 22 million tons of plastic microfibers in the oceans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Bronnen: Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Milieu Centraal, CBS Statline<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><div class=\"video__wrapper\"><iframe style=\"left: 0px; width: 100%; 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