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In the last several decades, the world's population has exploded, and living conditions have improved dramatically. These two advancements have boosted textile consumption, which has resulted in an increase in textile output. Every year, more than 110 million tonnes of clothes and textile fibres are produced worldwide, resulting in a large volume of textile waste. Using a circular economy model is critical for ensuring sustainability and reducing environmental impacts in the textile and clothing industry. Textile waste recycling is a need for implementing a circular model.
As consumerist society grows, so does our throw-away culture, which essentially leads to disaster in the form of landfills. Landfills are bad for the environment because they release a variety of hazardous chemicals into the atmosphere that have been connected to cancer and other illnesses. Furthermore, we are completely out of room to store this much rubbish. But there is good news: brilliant brains from all across the world have banded together to raise awareness about clothing waste. We have campaigners raising awareness through petitions and forcing us to modify our shopping habits so that we can all do our part to safeguard the people who make our garments and the environment by upcycling as much as possible. The bulk of high-street retailers have a long way to go, but others, such as H&M and Zara, are making tiny modifications to join the sustainable fashion train.
The existing clothing production, distribution, and consumption system is linear. Tons of nonrenewable resources are chosen to create clothing that will most likely be worn for a short period of time. There are no real prospects of properly implementing sustainable principles in a linear economy structure. A circular system, like the recycling process, tries to reintroduce both goods and trash into a new industrial scheme, and it delivers many advantages not only to enterprises, but also to the environment and society in general. Products enter the economy at their peak value and reenter after consumption in a cyclical system.
A few practical solutions (suggestions to the company) are- Apparel that can be reworn will be offered as secondhand clothing, Reuse entails repurposing old garments and textiles into new items such as cleaning cloths, everything else is recycled and made into textile fibres, which are then utilized for purposes like insulation.
Keywords: Circular Economy, Fast Fashion, Landfills, Clothing Take-Back Programmes, Textile Waste.
