Why are we approaching this topic?

Changes and new approach is necessary to create production in the fashion sector. The current linear system in the textile industry strains natural resource reserves, pollutes, degrades the environment and ecosystems. Promotes significant negative social impacts locally, regionally and globally. The textile industry alone relies almost exclusively on the consumption of non-renewable raw materials, including: petroleum during the production of synthetic fibres; fertilisers for cotton cultivation; chemicals for the production, dyeing and finishing of fabric surfaces, etc. Production including cotton cultivation, contributes to water usage, generating growing water shortage problems. In 2017 the manufacturing and sales of clothing, footwear and home textiles consumed approximately 1.3 tonnes of primary raw materials and 104 cubic metres of water per EU resident – according to the European Environment Agency. According to EEA the fabrication of clothing, footwear as well as home textiles resulted in emissions of 654 kg CO2 equivalent per resident in the EU (EU-28, 2017), making textiles the fifth largest source of CO2 emissions linked to private consumption.