A study by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom concluded that a 250g cotton T-shirt consumes about 30 kWh of energy and emits 7 kg of carbon dioxide in its lifetime from raw material supply to final recycling or incineration. 」
It can be seen that the clothing production process of chemical synthetic fiber consumes more energy. It uses petroleum and other raw materials for artificial synthesis, consuming a lot of energy and water. In addition, its material is not easy to degrade, and it needs more energy to treat this kind of clothes, which increases carbon emissions. On the contrary, choosing clothes made of natural fibers such as cotton and hemp can reduce most raw material processing steps in the production process and achieve the goal of low carbon.
-But it doesn't matter. Besides clothes made of natural fibers, there will be other suggestions below to make everyone wear environmentally friendly clothes ~
1. Wearing cool, light-colored clothes when going out in summer, such as non-ironing clothes, is estimated to achieve more than 3,000 metric tons of carbon reduction benefits every year.
You can wear a shirt without a tie.
3. Reduce throwing away clothes, turning over old and new clothes or DIY to others.
4. Reduce the times of washing, drying and ironing, from machine washing to hand washing, and from drying to natural drying, thus reducing energy consumption.
5. Turn on the washing machine only when it is full to reduce power consumption.
6. Choose an energy-saving washing machine, which saves electricity by 50% and water by 60% compared with ordinary washing machines. Each energy-saving washing machine can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 9.4 kg per year.