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In order to protect the brand's intellectual property and market value , Burberry chose last year to burn unsold products, a practice that called into question its commitment to the environment and its social responsibility and that for that reason The luxury brand announced that it would stop carrying out this common practice in the company.
Less clothes and more energy;
According to El País, a few weeks after Burberry burned its clothing, Swedish public television reported that a power plant 100 kilometers from Stockholm, to eliminate fossil fuels in 2020, intended to use only those it considered renewable and recycled.
That is why in 2018 it burned discarded wood and garbage, including 15 tons of discarded H&M clothing (according to Bloomberg, not suitable for consumption), a minimum percentage of the 400 thousand tons of waste it needs to supply energy to 150 thousand homes. .
For Andoni Uriarte, technical director of Recircula, former president and founder of the Spanish Association of PET Recyclers (Aserpet), the burned clothing of the Swedish initiative:
"It is a contradiction if the plant intends to use renewable sources, these garments are mostly artificial polymers, derived from petroleum (a non-renewable source), mainly polyesters and polyamides."
«The use with the least environmental impact is to prevent, along with reuse and recycle. Incineration is viable if those three options are not possible. In energy utilization processes like this, a very high level of purity of materials must be present so that they are safe for humans and the environment. For example, in the collection and treatment of waste in Spain, where selective separation is poor or almost non-existent in some cases, they are practically unattainable.
For the expert, there is a need for legislation France Mobile Number List with responsibility for textile manufacturers, just as there is for other industries.
According to Luis López Aranguren, member of the textile recycling collective Altrapo Lab, "incineration is one of the least efficient waste management systems, even if burning clothing creates energy (not excessive) it is still a poorly used textile resource."
In a study prepared by the strategic consulting firm McKinsey in 2016, global clothing production doubled between 2010 and 2014. The average number of annual collections of European companies increased from two to five between 2000 and 2011; 80 billion garments, the amount of this waste in the US has doubled in 15 years and, in 2015, greenhouse gas emissions from global textile production exceeded those from all international flights.
Less clothes and more energy;
And according to El País, 95% of textiles end up in the trash, which is why some stores like H&M began a collection project in their stores that, in Spain alone, has reached 6 thousand tons.
For Gema Gómez, from the sustainable fashion platform Slow Fashion Next, she considers that from the manufacturing stage it is preferable to opt for more timeless designs and pure and healthy raw materials, mixed as little as possible, or with other compatible ones, "so that it is possible to compost them." or recycle them at the end of their life," he says.
Less clothes and more energy;
According to El País, a few weeks after Burberry burned its clothing, Swedish public television reported that a power plant 100 kilometers from Stockholm, to eliminate fossil fuels in 2020, intended to use only those it considered renewable and recycled.
That is why in 2018 it burned discarded wood and garbage, including 15 tons of discarded H&M clothing (according to Bloomberg, not suitable for consumption), a minimum percentage of the 400 thousand tons of waste it needs to supply energy to 150 thousand homes. .
For Andoni Uriarte, technical director of Recircula, former president and founder of the Spanish Association of PET Recyclers (Aserpet), the burned clothing of the Swedish initiative:
"It is a contradiction if the plant intends to use renewable sources, these garments are mostly artificial polymers, derived from petroleum (a non-renewable source), mainly polyesters and polyamides."
«The use with the least environmental impact is to prevent, along with reuse and recycle. Incineration is viable if those three options are not possible. In energy utilization processes like this, a very high level of purity of materials must be present so that they are safe for humans and the environment. For example, in the collection and treatment of waste in Spain, where selective separation is poor or almost non-existent in some cases, they are practically unattainable.
For the expert, there is a need for legislation France Mobile Number List with responsibility for textile manufacturers, just as there is for other industries.
According to Luis López Aranguren, member of the textile recycling collective Altrapo Lab, "incineration is one of the least efficient waste management systems, even if burning clothing creates energy (not excessive) it is still a poorly used textile resource."
In a study prepared by the strategic consulting firm McKinsey in 2016, global clothing production doubled between 2010 and 2014. The average number of annual collections of European companies increased from two to five between 2000 and 2011; 80 billion garments, the amount of this waste in the US has doubled in 15 years and, in 2015, greenhouse gas emissions from global textile production exceeded those from all international flights.
Less clothes and more energy;
And according to El País, 95% of textiles end up in the trash, which is why some stores like H&M began a collection project in their stores that, in Spain alone, has reached 6 thousand tons.
For Gema Gómez, from the sustainable fashion platform Slow Fashion Next, she considers that from the manufacturing stage it is preferable to opt for more timeless designs and pure and healthy raw materials, mixed as little as possible, or with other compatible ones, "so that it is possible to compost them." or recycle them at the end of their life," he says.