Herausgeber*in: Université de Genève, Eco Age
Autor*in: Veronica Bates Kassatly, Dorothee Baumann-Pauly
Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Fasern, Kunstfasern, Leder, Lifecycle Assessment, Nachhaltigkeit, Ökobilanz, Recycling, Textilien
Kurzbeschreibung:
This is the second part of the white paper: The Great Green Washing Machine. The first part “Back to The Roots Of Sustainability” demonstrates that in fashion at the present time, sustainability is not properly defined, and the vital metric - impact on the multidimensionally poor - is not considered.
Those who have the least freedom and opportunity to live the lives they value - farmers, primarily, but not exclusively in the global south – are not consulted, and their complaints are ignored. All sustainability assertions in fashion are based solely upon purported environmental impact, whilst the impact on farmers of the major agricultural (cotton) sustainability programs is not accurately captured, if at all.
In this second white paper, we further demonstrate that even the environmental impact of fashion is not being correctly assessed, neither broadly, nor narrowly. Sustainable fashion's repeated references to Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) - or scores derived from LCAs - is highly problematic
from a scientific perspective, as LCAs can only be compared if they were produced using exactly the same methodology and boundaries etc. No such suite of global LCAs for the various fibers used in the apparel sector exists. In fact, for all the major fibers, with the partial exception of wool and cotton, no global generic LCA exists.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 64 Seiten
Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, Beschaffer*innen
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