There are ways to help the environment through our clothing choices
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Finding solutions to address the climate emergency means
tackling the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions those coming from
the transportation, food and energy sectors.
We’re learning to make more
climate-friendly decisions about what we eat, how we power our homes and how we
get around.
We don’t often look at what we’re wearing, though. And we
should.
The textile industry pumps between 1.22 and 2.93 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere every year. The result is that, by some estimates, the life
cycle of textiles (including laundering) accounts for 6.7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.