AMMAN – The vision of access to waste in the textile industry and the fashion world which calls it worldwide and locally improves the need to obtain production and consumption patterns, to reduce the exacerbation of climate change crises and the loss of biological diversity and pollution.
This comes at a time when Jordan and Le Monde celebrate the end of this month at the International Day of “Zero Waste”, which is organized by the United Nations environmental programs and the United Nations for human establishments (Habitat), to confirm the urgent need to take serious measures in the fashion and textile sector, in order to reduce waste and improve circular solutions.
Consumers can help reduce environmental effects by adopting recycling and recycling methods, reform, to move away from rapid fashion, to invest in strong and high quality clothes, which preserves resources and improves the principles of sustainability, according to experts.
Clothing production is doubled
Textile waste worldwide increases each year, due to the increase in excessive production and consumption, improved by innovative marketing mechanisms, low prices and the ease of purchases, in particular online, which can deliver goods directly to the houses, according to the representative of the United Nations Environment Program and the Regional Director of Western Asia Sami Demai.
Dimassi continued: “Studies have shown that the duration of the use of the fabric, that is to say the number of times the part is used before elimination, decreased by around 36% between 2000 and 2015, while the production of clothing has doubled.”
He continued: “Estimates indicate that more than half of the costumes produced quickly are eliminated in the year following the purchase, and this is equivalent to 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year, and this is equivalent to launching a garbage truck filled with clothes every second.”
He assured “Al -ghad”, that “the sector greatly contributes to the triple planet crisis, because each year, a series of textile value is estimated at 2% to 8% of greenhouse gas emissions which cause global warming.
He added: “The sector also consumes 215 billions of liters of water per year, which is equivalent to an area of 86 million Olympic pools, and causes 9% of ocean pollution with fine plastic particles per year.”
Not only that, according to his saying, because “textiles also have a large chemical imprint, because the production of one kilogram of textiles requires 0.58 kg of chemicals as average limit, while groups of those used are drinking water, internal environments and wider ecosystem.”
He stressed that “there are many organizations and initiatives which, worldwide, seek to help the textile sector to head towards more sustainable practices, but there is a gap which must be lowered in the application of the principles of the circular economy and innovation in the preliminary stages.”
In his opinion, it was based on the fact that “studies have shown that only 8% of textile fibers in 2023 were made from recycled materials”.
While “less than 1% of the total fiber market is recycled and converted into less precious use of isolation or cleaning, which organizes losses of $ 100 billion per year”, according to its insurance.
No magic solution
In the opinion of Al-Dimassi, “the manufacturing principles must be integrated into the objectives of the ambitious sector as an integral part of these objectives, improving coordination in order to improve consistency in the implementation of current initiatives and to ensure the progression of all efforts in the same direction in order to cause a more coherent and more coherent and more measurable impact.”
At the same time, he stressed that “nobody has the magic solution to the question of textile waste, but rather all the relevant authorities of the textile sector of politicians, institutions, fashion companies, producers and manufacturers of raw materials, innovators, designers, advertisers, marketing, consumers and other authorities concerned, to create conditions.”
According to him, they “define the appropriate policies to take the necessary measures and exploit their resources and their efforts to work together to achieve the sustainability and the circular nature of the textile industries”.
He added: “We will be able to carry out a process of transformation of the value chain in the textile industries to become durable and of a circular nature, to find solutions to reduce these environmental and social effects, in conjunction with the support of people and the promotion of prosperity and equity.”
He thought that “the conversion of textile raw materials into sustainable or recycled sources is in fact one of the main pillars of the circular sector, but many other basic pillars must also work so that these efforts are effective”.
Among the pillars mentioned: “Treat excessive consumption and production, guarantee consumers safe, sustainable and available tissue products and improve productivity of the product”.
In addition to another important aspect, he underlined “the adoption of the approach of the full life cycle, so that the textiles remain in the economic cycle, which goes beyond the waste collection initiatives and the recycling of existing products”.
From its point of view, “the ultimate objective should be to generate income and profits from circular commercial models such as reuse, repair instead of relying on the use and sale of increasing quantities of tissue products in raw fibers.”
And “the United Nations Environment Program provides strategic leadership and encourages cooperation in the sector to accelerate the fair transition to a circular and sustainable approach in the textile value chain”, according to her.
The United Nations Environment Program, through its textile initiative, works to support governments and provide them with information, through the dialogue of international policy in this regard, for example, and to help the sector, in particular small and medium -sized businesses in developing countries, to turn to circular commercial models and to stop the use of dangerous chemicals.
Lack of conscience
In Jordan, the waste management generated by the fashion and textile sector is always confronted with major challenges, because the majority of textile waste is not optimally exploited, because a large part of it ends in discharges or is burned, which increases the negative environmental impact, such as the researcher and the designer in the field of fashion and sustainable technologies Mr. Batoul
Al -rashdan has confirmed to “Al -ghad” that “attention is limited in terms of recycling and use, to certain individual or societal initiatives, but there are no clear policies that promote the adoption of large -scale circular solutions within the industry.”
She added that “the sufficient lack of consumer consciousness on the effects of rapid fashion increases the size of the problem”.
In its opinion, “sustainable fashion can significantly contribute to the reduction of waste by adopting strategies such as recycling and use, and the circular design which allows more of the age of the product.”
Among the solutions he suggested, there is “the use of natural or recycled materials in manufacturing, such as fruits and vegetables such as onions, beets, grenade and others”.
All of this will reduce waste and provide environmentally friendly solutions, while “replacement instead of replacement” can be improved by community workshops and awareness of the community, which, according to them.
During her commercial career in the field in the sustainable manner, Al -rashdan noted: “The extent of environmental damage caused by the traditional fashion industry, so she began to seek new alternatives that depend on the recycling of neglected materials and transforming into precious products.”
She worked to establish her own work (Studio Bor & Bio.bor) through “Laboratory for Digital Manufacturing Technologies such as 3D printing and the use of organic and industrial waste in fashion design and accessories”.
Al -rashdan believes that “technology can be a major solution to redefine how to produce and consume in a sustainable manner”.
Among the proposals I have submitted to reduce this dilemma in Jordan are “the creation of motivation policies to support startups, the designers working to recycle and produce sustainable fashion”.
In addition, she called to “encourage education and awareness of the responsibility for fashion consumption through study programs and public education campaigns”.
Among other questions, in his opinion, “invest in recycling techniques, circular manufacturing by establishing factories or workshops specializing in the recycling of tissue waste and by converting them into materials which can be reusable”.
It stressed “the importance of cooperation with local factories, researchers, industrial designers and specialized circular design, to ensure the development of products which depend on the principle of zero waste”.
But this requires, according to “rethink the production process from the start, so that the products are designed to allow them to reuse or rotate them completely without generating waste”.
She stressed that “the transition to a more sustainable sewing model must join the efforts between the government, the industrial sector and the creators in the field of design and technology to ensure the construction of an integrated system which supports sustainability and the circular economy”.
