The Spppoooky Truth About Halloween Costumes
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So, my friend Ryan Smith joked that, in choosing our costume, we should elect for the most sustainable option this year. The sppoooooky truth about most of what we wear, however, is that the vast majority of clothing’s environmental impact comes from the use phase, not from materials or production. The Danish Ministry of the Environment published a paper that examined the impact of textiles across a wide range of impacts, including toxicity, ozone formation, nutrient loading and…
ENerGY consumption. The table below represents the impact of each phase of textile life cycle, and, as you can see, owning clothes is much, much more intense than buying them. Good news for H&M, bad news for the environment. (As a side note, it makes me very curious about whether or not Levi’s recent movement to re-purpose used bottles as jeans will actually reduce environmental impact…)
So, what can you do to save the environment while scaring up some candy? After you wash out whatever jello-shot-snickerdoodle-lipstick ends up on your (hopefully purchased se
cond-hand) shirt….hang it on the line instead of throwing it into the drier.
RAW DENIM (see the MY PANTS section: http://www.raleighworkshop.com/index.php?/contact/contact/ ), you don’t wash them or dry them except every six months. Just throw them in the freezer to kill all the little growdies growin’. T
hose Danish stats are CRAZY interesting, though. I never knew the ratio. Does this take us back to the paper napkin v. cloth napkin argument???
I think it does bring us back to that (kinda)…but, RAW DENIM seems like it may save the world!