Sustainability
Why Upcycled Denim Materials? - The Fashion Industry Are Producing And Throwing Away Too Many Denims.
By now many of us know that “Our planet is suffering from fast fashion”
About 6 billion pairs of jeans are made a year but people are only purchasing 1.2 billion pairs of jeans. Less than 1% of the materials used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing and also, one out of five jeans are only purchased by consumer.
Save The Water & Landfills.
This means 84 per cent of unwanted denim end up in landfills.
2900 gallons of water is used to make one pair of traditional cotton jeans.
Also, It takes around 1,800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular blue jeans.
Even In Fully Modernised Indigo Process, It Is Nearly Impossible To Reclaim All The Pollutants Generated By The Dying Processing.
Once the cotton has been grown and harvested, the dyeing process discharges bleach, synthetic indigo, potassium permanganate, sodium hypochlorite, lead, copper, and cadmium into local rivers. The controversial process of ‘sandblasting’ jeans to make jeans appear to be well-worn (sometimes, fashion trends are truly baffling) is horrendously hard on workers who sometimes must carry out the process without proper ventilation or safety equipment and, as a result, suffer from deadly lung diseases.
What makes the process of making jeans so poisonous to people and the planet? Consider just one of the most popular types of jeans today—distressed. To get that “lived in” look, denim is subjected to several chemical-intensive washes.
Save Our Oceans, Rivers..
Campaigners from the environmental group Greenpeace, who tested the outflows near dyeing and finishing facilities in the top denim producing towns in Asia, found five heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, mercury, lead and copper) in 17 out of 21 water and sediment samples taken from throughout Xintang one of the locales featured in the project. Toxic campaigners in China also discovered heavy metals like manganese, which can be associated with brain damage, in the rivers.
These chemicals don’t stay put. They can also be transported to North American oceans as well, atmosphere and food chains and accumulates in places far away from the original source.
Indigo Is A Natural Resource, But..
Blue jeans were originally coloured with natural indigo, a blue dye derived from several tropical plants, including Indigofera tinctura. Eventually, chemists developed a synthetic, or artificial, version of indigo to keep up with the high demand for the dye. “Synthetic indigo is very useful for industry, but it’s made in an unsustainable way,” says Tammy Hsu, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Indigo Still Needs To Be Mixed With Harsh Chemical.
Synthetic indigo is not soluble and not able to dissolve in water. To make synthetic indigo soluble so it can attach to fabric, jean manufacturers must mix it with harsh chemicals. Unfortunately, jean factories overseas sometimes release water tainted by these chemicals into lakes and streams during the dyeing process. Pollution puts people and wildlife at risk. It is estimated that 70 per cent of Asia’s rivers and lakes are contaminated by the 2.5 billion gallons of wastewater produced by that continent’s textile industry.
Traceable Denim Bag
Traceable denim bag will help to deminize the denim wastes and fill the waste gap between raw materials and encourage sustainable practices to the consumers and communities. Most of our denim bags have got design patents. You can wear our innovative designed bag as an art piece.
The Uniqueness & creativity
You can choose your favourite type of designed bags and colours and size as each bags are unique and slightly different like a limited edition as the materials are randomly chosen to make highly functional creative jean to meet best quality.