Can Fast Fashion Industry Really Achieve Sustainability?

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The industry has been wasting its head and not being environmentally friendly.

However, the fast fashion industry has begun to carry out sustainable business in recent years, especially the Swedish brand H&M, which has launched Conscious Exclusive sustainable products since 2013.

In the middle of the year, the wedding dress wedding dress of entertainment star Hsu Chi came from H&M's Sustainability Product in 2014.

Hayne and Maurice, parent company Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMb.ST), said on the sustainable website of the official website that the fashion industry is the second largest industry in the world, so "we have great responsibility to protect the environment".

The company said it hopes to start using organic cotton across the whole line starting in 2020.

The Swedish company also said that sustainable development is not only the use of raw materials, but also the strict requirements of suppliers.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, the company's utilization rate of organic cotton in 2015 was 31.4%, compared to 21.2% in 2014. In 2015, the group had 1 million 300 thousand garments used for recycling raw materials, which was four times that of 2014. In 2015, the group recovered 12341 tons of clothing, which was 60.6% higher than that of 2014 7684 tons, equivalent to 60 million T-shirts.

The sustainability and environmental protection of fast fashion industry is obviously not only a sense of corporate social responsibility, but also an environmental advocacy of mainstream elites and entertainment stars. The unremitting efforts of NGO organization are the important driving force for this trend.

According to the survey data of Euromonitor International International international, even consumers are the driving force of this force. According to the agency, in 2016, more than 14% of American consumers wanted to find clothing and accessories products of natural materials, which rose again compared with 12.9% in 2015. Consumers' desire to recycle recyclable clothing increased by 2%, especially in the growing number of millennial generation, and they pursued more sustainable products than consumers of other ages.

Three years after H&M launched the Conscious Exclusive series, its rival Zara launched the first sustainable series of Join Life in September 2016.

The Join Life series is mainly produced by recycling Zara's recycling products.

In addition to Join Life products, Join Life also includes a series of plans, involving environmental protection raw materials.

The brand said sustainable production of raw materials including BCI cotton and TENCEL lyocell was used in the brand production process.

Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is an organization that aims to promote the responsibility of the cotton industry and is committed to protecting the land and surrounding natural environment in the process of cotton cultivation.

In the process of planting, labor conditions and the use of water, fertilizers and pesticides are strictly regulated.

TENCEL lyocell is a fiber derived from sustainable forest. The production process of fiber is completed in a closed cycle, and 100% of production water and 95% of chemicals can be reused.

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net, at present, Zara has a total of 300 pieces of recycling bins in a series of shops in Spain and Portugal and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Sweden and Denmark.

This year will increase the recovery point of these countries, and will also start the recovery business in China.

In 2017, Zara will be equipped with recycling bins in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, the United States, Russia, South Korea and Australia.

Zara said that in the next three years, customers will be able to put recycled clothing in all stores around the world.

The brand says that 84% of the energy consumed by the website comes from renewable energy sources. In addition, 50% of the brands have reached the eco efficiency requirements and are committed to 2018 years. The energy consumed by servers and offices will be 100% from renewable energy sources, and by 2020, the commitment will reduce energy consumption by 20%.

Zara parent Inditex SA (ITX.MC) Indo Textile Group and Hennes & Mauritz AB, Hayne and Maurice are the world's first and second fashion retailers respectively. Sales of two companies in 2015 were 20 billion 900 million euros (US $22 billion 200 million) and 180 billion 860 million Swedish kronor (19 billion 700 million US dollars) respectively, with net profit of 2 billion 875 million euro (3 billion 57 million US dollars) and 20 billion 898 million Swedish kronor (2 billion 270 million dollars).

For the fast fashion industry to promote sustainable development, You Are What You Wear: What your Clothes Reveal About You, the author and clinical psychologist, said in an interview with reporters, the current trend of people's pursuit of trend is less and less, it seems that they are more willing to choose those classic and lasting products, and this trend of thought has entered the public field of vision, and has been recognized.

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For now, the answer is No.

There is a natural opposition between fast fashion industry and sustainable development, which is won by cheap prices and shipments.

According to Emily Bezzant, the chief analyst of fashion research data company Edited, the sustainable series now accounts for only 1.5% of Zara products, and the earliest sustainable series H&M has only 3.5% of its environmental protection products.

She said frankly that fast fashion and sustainable industry do not match naturally, and the biggest challenge for fast fashion industry is to coordinate the price of sustainable series with fast fashion and to meet the environmental needs of the Millennials.

However, the fast fashion industry led by Zara and H&M obviously has an exemplary role in the concern, promotion and practice of sustainable development, which will benefit more enterprises and brands in the apparel industry and reduce the waste and pollution of the apparel industry as much as possible.

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