Water Footprint Of Clothes. The use of chemicals used to turn raw materials into textiles and during the dyeing process end up in water streams causing further pollution and the same goes with the detergent used once clothes have been purchased and are washed at home. Your water footprint is the amount of water you consume in your daily life including the water used to grow the food you eat to produce the energy you use and for all of the products in your daily life your books music house car furniture and the clothes you wear.
A pair of jeans requires more clothes than a shirt. Even if a t shirt is made from an animal free all natural material like cotton there are still environmental consequences. Manufacturing in the apparel industry also contributes to the water footprint of fashion.
Manufacturing in the apparel industry also contributes to the water footprint of fashion.
Manufacturing in the apparel industry also contributes to the water footprint of fashion. It s estimated that around 20 of industrial water pollution in the world comes from the treatment and dyeing of textiles and about 8 000 synthetic chemicals are used to turn raw materials into textiles. But it is a limited solution. Since it takes about 2 700 liters of water to make just one t shirt as the video explains that means an inordinate amount of the world s clean water is being concentrated in the.
