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Environmental assessment of Swedish fashion consumption: Five garments – sustainable futures

Article | Free | Jun 15, 2015

The Mistra Future Fashion research program was created to deliver knowledge and solutions that the Swedish fashion industry and its stakeholders can use to improve the fashion sector’s environmental performance and strengthen its global competitiveness. Within the program, Project 2, called “Clarifying sustainable fashion”, aimed to clarify what sustainable fashion means for the Swedish fashion industry. To achieve this, five key garments were examined using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), to give a representative picture of Swedish fashion consumption. LCA is a globally used and accepted method for assessing environmental impacts of a product's life cycle from cradle to grave, including raw material extraction, material processing, product manufacture, distribution, use, disposal and recycling.

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