During the last UN Climate Summit in Katowice (COP24) in December 2018, leading fashion and textile brands pledged to work together with the UNFCCC, to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% by 2030 by signing the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. UN urges fashion industry to cut microplastics pollution 15th March 2019 15th March 2019 Thomas Barrett The UN has told global fashion retailers they must clean up their act and put a stop to the environmentally damaging aspects of the industry. These are extremely harmful for the aquatic life and the health of the millions people living by those rivers banks. Fashion & Water Pollution. Fashion Industry Statistics The global apparel market is valued at 3 trillion dollars, 3,000 billion, and accounts for 2 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).1 Almost 75% of the world’s fashion market is concentrated in Europe, USA, China and Japan.2 Second to oil, the clothing and textile industry is the largest polluter… According to WWF, it can take up to 2,700 litres to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt (enough for one person to drink for two and a half years) and a massive 7000 litres to make one pair of jeans (WWF, 2013). In December 2018 a group of leading fashion brands and NGOs launched the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, under the auspices of the United Nations. In most of the countries in which garments are produced, untreated toxic wastewaters from textiles factories are dumped directly into the rivers. The main culprit for the fashion industry’s huge water footprint is cotton growth. A charter to curb fashion industry pollution? At just about every single point of production in the textile industry, there is a form of chemical pollution being released into the environment; from the time the base materials were planted and produced, through to spinning, weaving, dyeing and then finally transporting the finished goods. So what can the fashion industry do to reverse its harmful practices, and who is providing leadership on the issue? Wastewater contains toxic substances such as lead, mercury, and arsenic, among others. Why is pollution in the fashion industry such a major problem and how can using renewable energy help to make fashion more sustainable?Wie führt die Kleidung, die wir kaufen, zu vielen verherenden Umweltfolgen? Lesen Sie hier mehr!Индустрия моды — одна из наиболее загрязняющих в мире. Fabric of the World. Fashion Is NOT The Second Highest Polluting Industry, Here Are The Real Numbers February 01, 2018 This article originally appeared on EcoCult , a blog about sustainable fashion and …