Environmental Issues
- Created by: lili_sell
- Created on: 04-05-17 19:24
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- Environmental Issues
- Fibre sources
- growth of cotton requires fertilisers ans pesticides = pollutes atmo and waterways
- Synthetics made from petrochemicals - no renewable resources and burning relates harmful gases.
- Changes to landscape because of intensive farming and deforestation
- When growing cotton crops & producing wood for regenerated fibres
- Manu & finishing use chems = can be damaging
- large quantities of water are also required for these processes
- Waste is produced when fabrics are made into products = may end up in landfill
- Manu of components may use plastics aswell as energy
- Packaging can be wasteful (paper, card, plastics, inks & energy used to transport
- Care for products
- requires detergents, dry-cleaning flies, energy and water
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- Transportation produces CO2 emmisions
- contribution to global warming & damage to infrastructures & pollution to water
- Fibre sources
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