Linear Economy versus Circular Economy: New raw material

Abstract

The fashion industry plays a key role in the road to sustainability and around financial system. Indeed, the fashion industry is a sector with a strong impact on the environment; it requires a very long and complicated supply chain linked to the high use of water and resources, the use of chemical substances, the contamination of water and air, the production of waste and, finally, the generation of microplastics. Textile and textile waste has become a huge international concern. Against this context, the objective of this paper is to evaluate existing measures of the European Union (EU) that have an impact on the development of sustainable practices and the transition to a round financial system in the style industry, with a specific emphasis on the need for clothing in the EU (for paintings and pleasure). However, what we put on places a huge strain on the atmosphere. In the past 15 years, growing prosperity and the churn of rapid manner have contributed to the doubling of the development of world clothing. It is grown at a faster fee than Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and on the identical time, use of clothes is diminishing, with lots much less than one percent of the fifty-three million tons of fibers produced every 12 months, 1/2 of one million tones turning into recycled returned into production. Most style finally ends up in a landfill and maximum of it, an extraordinary waste of money, within 12 months of being made. Therefore, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMAF) is organizing an international alliance to show the linear discard put on style financial system right into a round one. Big manufacturers such Burberry, Gap, H&M, and Nike, have come on board to paintings to expand a round financial system that levels out dangerous substances and maintains garments in use. Revised waste legislative framework followed inside the 2015 Circular Economy Action Plan.