We must keep minimalism in mind and buy less, borrow and buy second hand. What may be more expensive now is certainly worth the extra cost if it only needs to be bought once.Įvery second, the equivalent of one garbage truck full of textiles is burned or sent to landfills… Timeless wardrobe favorites that last for years and years are more sustainable and reduce the need for replacements. Such problems could be avoided by buying better quality, more durable, long lasting materials. Snags, stains, warping and shrinkage render items unusable and unacceptable for the donation pile.
Fast fashion (creating low-priced items at high volumes) is problematic for a number of reasons and promotes the attitude that clothing is nearly disposable.īut another component of such a quick turnaround on clothing is because it’s just not lasting long enough. The reason for such wastefulness could be blamed on society’s ever growing desire to acquire. Unsustainable if silk or non-organic cotton is usedįor every 5 garments produced, the equivalent of 3 end up in a landfill or incinerated each year! Fiber source: natural and/or synthetic, brocade may be natural fiber, semi-synthetic or synthetic fiber, silk, cotton, polyester threads along with metallic threadīiodegradable: yes or no brocade may or may not be biodegradable depending on what materials are used, when untreated with chemicals, silk starts to show signs of biodegradation after about 4 years, non-organic cotton cannot simply biodegrade due to the large number of dyes or finishing chemicals appliedĭestruction: low to high, brocade production is relatively destructive, if organic cotton is used it is more sustainable, but silk processing and transportation cause high pollution, as most silk comes from China and India, cleaning silk requires harsh, intensive treatments and chemicals, which pollute ground water, for silk to be produced locally, in the USA for example, the non-native Mulberry tree for silkworms was introduced to American soil, which quickly disrupted native habitats, the tree is a highly invasive species and upset natural ecosystems, similar occurrences in Latin America and South Asia, Mulberry trees overtake native flora due to their extreme consumption of water, leaving less water to sustain native flora, if cotton is not organic lots of pesticides used, often GMO seeds, up to 16% of the world’s pesticides are used in cotton farming every year, chemicals degrade soil and pollute water and poison cotton pickers
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