How digital fashion can save the planet
Digital fashion – 3D representation of clothes – has been undoubtedly becoming a buzzword
The United Nations stated that raising livestock produces more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector – cars, planes, ships, – combined. Also, methane produced by livestock is 86 times more destructive for the environment than carbon dioxide released by cars we drive. And that’s just the beginning of the story. Most of the leather produced in the US and globally is tanned with hazardous chromium. The process of tanning prevents the leather from biodegrading because it stabilizes the collagen and protein fibers. Then there’s also all this toxic solid waste that chrome-tanning facilities generate.
You can learn more about it from the documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability secret.
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But enough shock therapy – we are here to talk about how you can make your own unique contribution to the solution. All you need to know about leather is this:
Leather production is very harmful for the environment, but there are at least ten amazing leather alternatives made from cactuses, cork, recycled rubber, mushroom and pineapple leather, coconut and even apple.
So, the good news is that there are leather alternatives – made of pineapples, apples, recycled rubber, coconuts and even coffee. There are also innovative biotech companies like Ecovative Design that use fungi to create bio-friendly alternatives to polyester. Let’s look at some of them in detail.
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