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Fashion’s eco efforts countered by excessive UK consumption – WRAP report

A 12% reduction in the fashion industry’s carbon impact is great, but a 13% rise in textiles produced and sold wipes out that benefit, as the hunger for fashion sees the average Briton buying 28 items every year, the report claims. While progress has been made by 130 brands and retailers signed up to Wrap’s voluntary environmental pact — Textiles 2030 — the report says clothing production continues to “spiral upwards” with gains being “cancelled out”.คำพูดจาก เว็บสล็อตตรง

So, in 2022, the carbon footprint of textiles sold or placed on the market by brand and retailer signatories was 12.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, marking only a modest 2% reduction on 2019.Meanwhile, the water footprint for 2022 was 3.1 billion cubic metres,  up as much as 8% on 2019, with cotton fibre production accounting for 84% of the total figure.And the volume of products signatories sold or placed on the market rose 13% over the period.Wrap’s director of behaviour change and business programmes, Catherine David, told The Guardian newspaper that the progress made by brands and retailers involved showed “it’s possible to change this, but as fast as positive improvements happen, they’re cancelled out by rising production.” Since production is related to consumption, David said consumers had a part to play. We’re working with companies to improve clothes, but the other part of the equation is our role as shoppers,” she saidคำพูดจาก เว็บปั่นสล็อต. “We buy more clothes than any other nation in Europe”.Importantly, Wrap wants its signatories to “urgently” develop, pilot and scale circular business models such as rental and repair “to decouple business growth from the use of virgin resources”.With more brands and retailers operating take-back schemes, the volume of used textiles collected and sold for reuse or recycling between 2019 and 2022 had doubled, Wrap noted.However, production of new clothing far overshadows the pre-loved market, and the gap between brand-new products and pre-loved items sold remains significant. So far, secondhand makes up just 9% of textiles placed on the market.

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