Environmental impact on fashion

The environment and fashion

One of the major issues with fashion and environment is in the relation to the raw materials that used to create textiles for example there may be environmental impacts in places from growing cotton, the use of water for example  and the production of chemicals for synthetic fabric such as nylons etc.



fashion environment

According to the Non Profit Earth pledge, today some 8.000 synthetic chemicals are used throughout the world to turn away materials into textiles. domestically the South African department of agriculture reports that one quater of all pesticides used nation wide go toward growing cotton, primarily for clothing industry. there may be animal concerns also such as the treatment for animals for example cows for leather product even sheep for the production of wool can  be a concern to some people and the use of furs foxes seals from animals is another consideration. The SA Environment Protection Agency argued that many domestic textile manufacturing facilities to be harzardous waste generators and lax standard and enforcement in developing countries where the majority of textile are produced means that untold amount of pollution are likely being deposited into local soils and water ways in region that can hardly stand further environmental insullt. yet this sort of so called fast fashion leaves pollution  footprint with each step of clothing life cycle generating potential environmental and occupational harzards

The precautions the environment and fashion industry can use

•  firstly to promote the use of renwable reusable and non pollution material production methods
• Secondly encourage the designers to create and show clothing on the run away models
• have the ethical fashion forum which provides a variety of tools and resources and runs training sessions
• the industry can improve its footprint from the inside and drive the costs of more eco friendly material and processes down
• have networking events to help facilitate moving industry towards practices.