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Possibly more significant than the 100L: > For one, it takes at least 10,000 litres of water to produce just a kilo of raw cotton – enough to make only one pai
by mehrdadn 7y ago
Possibly more significant than the 100L:
> For one, it takes at least 10,000 litres of water to produce just a kilo of raw cotton – enough to make only one pair of jeans, according to the United Nations. And that’s not counting the water usage in the wash process the denim goes through to create the soft texture of used jeans – and other repercussions we’ll get to later.
However, I don't know where most of this cotton is grown... if it's in water-rich regions, is it something that needs to be reduced?
Also worth noting:
> For the record, each pair of Uniqlo jeans uses an average of 100 litres of water to wash. That’s actually just 43 litres shy of what the average Singaporean uses per day in 2017, according to the PUB.
So I guess this means your jean washes are worth < 2 days' worth of water?
One last question on my mind: is using laser actually greener? Not sure how much energy (and in what form) that uses.