The UN asks not to buy new jeans, donosi old
the United Nations (UN) appealed to the humanity with a request to continue wearing old clothes and not buying new if possible. In the Program of the UN environment programme (UNEP) are asked not to buy new jeans, old donosi so as to produce one pair of jeans, if you consider the cotton harvest, production, transportation and Laundry requires about 4,000 liters of water and is released as much greenhouse gases as when the vehicle mileage 111 km.
the fashion industry can make a significant contribution to combating climate change, primarily because of its enormous production volume, talk at the UN. In the sector occupied by 300 million people and its annual turnover exceeds $ 1.3 trillion. Lawrence Mila Canals, an activist movement to protect nature, urged to identify the supply chain processes that cause the greatest damage to the environment and to take action.
"All participants in the cycle must make an effort to review the production process and profit in the textile industry and to abandon methods that harm the environment," he says.
According to statistics, before throwing the thing we put on it about ten times. The performance, of course, may vary depending on country and social status of the person. In UNEP lead averaged data.
However, the trend applies to all: the demand for garments is growing every year by two percent a year, but we carry it one-third less than at the beginning of the two thousandth.
this extravagance spent additional resources on the planet. 87 percent of used clothing is on the dump-on a global scale, it is every second of loading a garbage truck.
In UNEP suggest when buying clothes to pay attention to the strength of the material that lasts longer. It is also recommended to buy used clothes, and bored again to take in the shops second hand or to share with others. Wear it carefully, wash things less often, and for washing to choose a concentrated liquid instead of powder, which washes away more fiber.