Lesson 3 Living Green: A Guide to Sustainable Choices
Why Fashion Needs to Be More Sustainable
Jessi is ____ fashion blogger who loves unique, vibrant clothes.
But guess ____ She does not buy new clothes. Instead, she buys them secondhand.
You may ____ secondhand clothes are old fashioned, but by buying them, Jessi can try different styles.
She also ____ not get too attached to any style or brand because there is always another exciting outfit waiting to be discovered.
Jessi’s clothing habits are ____ just about creating a style; they are about saving the Earth.
The reason is that her actions help ____ the production and consumption of clothes.
Worth over $3 trillion
Worth over ____ trillion and making up 2% of the world’s GDP, the fashion industry today has an almost entirely linear approach.
The process moves in a straight line from ____ to consumption to disposal.
Material extraction, textile manufacturing, the supply chain, ____ sales, marketing,
and other steps are ____ by the aim of maximizing garment consumption without considering other issues.
Due ____ linear fashion, the fashion industry negatively affects the environment.
85% of textiles go into landfills, ____ 1% of the material is recycled,
at least 500,000 tons of microfibers end up in the ocean (equal to 50 billion plastic bottles), and 93 billion cubic ____ of water is required for textile production annually.
Alarming numbers like these ____ keep increasing if producers maintain the old system.
It is clear that waste ____ pollution from the fashion industry must be reduced.
Linear fashion must ____ and this could happen through circular fashion.
Circular fashion is ____ by the principles of a circular economy and sustainable development.
A circular economy is based on limiting ____ keeping resources and materials in use, and reusing them.
In a circular model, we make, use, and reuse materials for as long ____ possible to extract their maximum value.
Therefore, clothing and ____ are produced, used, and reused to minimize waste.
____ is a renewable approach to reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact.
Circular fashion provides numerous benefits.
First, extending the lifespan of fibers significantly reduces textile waste, benefiting the ____
Second, circular processes utilize chemicals and materials safe for human health and ____ environment.
This ____ protects the environment and consumer health.
Third, materials are regenerated instead of being disposed of, ____ enables their long-term use.
The rise ____ circular fashion is facilitated by new technology and ideas.
Materials commonly used ____ clothing are not eco-friendly because they require considerable resources and often break down slowly.
This creates a need for ____ textile alternatives.
Currently, companies ____ developing recycled fibers and fibers extracted from agricultural waste products like leaves, peels, and seeds.
One company uses nanotechnology ____ make soft material from orange peels.
Another ____ fabrics from kapok tree seeds.
The trees grow well in poor soil without needing ____ water.
These new fabrics produce less waste, last a long time, and break ____ easily.
In addition to
In addition to these manufacturing techniques, technology will improve in such a way that ____ may become normal to produce clothes only when people order them.
____ “make-to-order” method will cost more, but then less money will be spent on maintaining offline stores.
And 3D technology will enable people to see how clothes ____ fit online without trying them on in a store.
In the long run, innovation in production and sales will facilitate sustainable fashion and considerably reduce material waste and logistics ____
____ key to making fashion sustainable is the consumer: us.
If we want the fashion ____ to adopt more sustainable practices, we must care about how clothes come to us.
We should then demonstrate our concerns through what we ____
____ market, of course, will respond.
We ____ also reduce waste by discarding clothes responsibly.
To be specific, we should buy only ____ we need and pass clothing on to someone who will wear it or to a thrift shop when discarding it.
Circular fashion will not solve every ____ in the fashion industry overnight.
However, small steps in the ____ direction are better than nothing.
Keeping things in the supply chain for as ____ cycles as possible is really important.
By making small changes to our ____ habits today, the fashion industry will gradually improve.
After all, nothing is more fashionable than saving the ____