1.5 MILLION TONNES OF PLASTIC IN 1950 => 8,000 MILLION TONNES IN 2017 – IN 65 YEARS WE HAD AN INCREASE OF OVER 5,000%.
Plastic production has exploded since the 1950s. We produced about 1.5 million tonnes back then. In …
Textile production
Responsibility – who takes responsibility?
Factories come and go while the earth they stand on remains [1].
Did you know that a kilo of raw cotton costs about SEK 18, which the buyer pays the grower? The grower gets his money, which may seem low, …
Textiles emit more greenhouse gases than all air and sea traffic combined…
Yes, we’re nagging about textiles – that’s our purpose. Our vision is to spread knowledge about textiles and their impact on the environment.
We hear a lot about aviation and its environmental consequences; of course, we would like to fly less. …
Hmm… Possible? … More than 100%?
No, of course not. But… to grow a kilo of cotton requires 1 to 1.5 kilos of chemicals and a pair of cotton pants weighs between 0.5 to 0.8 kilos [1], so…
For over an hour, these chemicals work …
Water and Poisons: A Disturbing Duo
Here in the West, we don’t necessarily have to associate these words with each other. But water and toxins are unfortunately linked in other parts of the world. In Brazil, the world’s fourth most prominent user of agrochemicals, researchers have …
