The Environmental Blog
MARCH 19, 2020
Clothing production has approximately doubled since 2000, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down. The microplastics in clothes are non-biodegradable and pollute the water. Recycled versions of cotton, wool, nylon or polyester are better for the environment than anything non-recycled. The Effects of Fast Fashion.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or leaking into the environment, and only 9% successfully recycled, according to a new OECD report. Within that, OECD countries account for 11% of macroplastics leakage and 35% of microplastics leakage.
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Unsustainable
OCTOBER 12, 2019
million tonnes of plastic waste were generated, only about 14% of which was recycled or reused (Pickin and Randell 2016, p. MJ l –1 —as much as 2000 times the energy cost of producing tap water.” Recycling can help to alleviate this cost, to be sure. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5 In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.
EDF + Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Founded in 2000, Ecocem has four manufacturing facilities across Western Europe, selling into several major international markets including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, etc. Ovako’s business model is based on circularity and recycling, remelting scraps to make steel.
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 21, 2021
Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 21, 2021
Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .
Business Green
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Globally, the annual production of plastics has doubled over the past two decades, soaring from 234 million tonnes in 2000 to 460 million tonnes in 2019, the report states. In 2019 alone, 22 million tonnes of plastic materials leaked into the environment, of which microplastics smaller than 5mm in diameter made up 12 per cent.
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