Sustainability In Material Production

In recent years, more and more people pay much attention to fashion as they consider that wearing trendy clothes can help them be equipped with a greater fascination. However, with the rapid increase of the fashion production, a wide range of industrial materials and wastes which are strongly detrimental to the environment are producing every day. How to dispose of this problem? Considering this, many experts and environmentalists tend to hold a viewpoint that a higher level of sustainability is the key solution.
This essay will demonstrate how the fashion industry makes against the environment and how a higher standard of sustainability can solve this problem. First of all, diversity of materials is hard to find in the modern fashion and textile industry. It is dominated by a large number of similar, ready-made products in a limited range of fibre types. Indeed, cotton and polyester together account for over 80 percent of the global market in textiles (Simpson, 2006). The more demands of fashion, the more fibre will be produced.
However, it is a high energy-consuming process in the production of fibre. It needs a lot of oil, insecticides and water. Furthermore, large quantities of chemical wastes and toxic industrial water will be discharged into the environment. Secondly, manufacturers always produce fur and leather material. Thus, it can lead to a wide range of animals being killed. That is quite cruel to animals. According to the research by environmentalists, almost 3528 species of animals are in danger (Langley, 2009).

If manufacturers continue to produce more fur and leather, the biodiversity and the balance of nature will be broken seriously. It seems quite difficult to prevent the threat of fashion industry entirely. However, many experts have put up with a concept of sustainability in materials production. Manufacturers can try to use some environmental materials instead of traditional unsustainable materials. To ensure a high standard of sustainability, the government should limit the production of unsustainable materials and products.
For instance, the government can try to improve the tax rate of detrimental materials. For another thing, the government should make unsustainable products illegal. At the same time, the punishment should also be strict. To sum up, the fashion industry indeed poses a serious threat to the environment and a high standard of sustainability in materials production can solve this problem effectively. To some extent, the government plays a significant role in protecting the environment.