Polyester fabrics, does it really contribute to the global warming?

Fashion is about dressing according to what is in trend. Always an easier way to express and impress in through the clothes you wear. Due to which, the customers blindly trust the fashion designers while buying clothes.

We often find people who are brand conscious. They don’t inspect the quality of the clothes or the reliability, instead they go according to the brand manufacturers. Thus keeping up the expectation and trust of the customer is an important factor for every designer or the garment manufacturer.

Everyone is aware of the fact that the fabrics are the key components for the clothes, but are you aware of the fabric that is environment friendly and causes less harm to the nature? We often prefer cotton and consider it to be an eco-friendly product but it may not be true every time. To be honest, textile industries produce toxics that harms the environment and it also consumes lots of energy and water resources for the manufacturing process. This cannot be stopped due to the demand for the fabric, but the adverse effect can be reduced consistently.

Cotton production uses incredible higher amount of pesticides and insecticides in its growth, whereas the organic cotton are good match but yet it uses greater amount of water which is again a hit to the eco-system. The not so customer friendly polyester fabric is consider to be friendly in nature and contributes well to the global warming from the harmful gases. The polyester fabric manufacturer have openly stated that the requirement of water is less compared to other fabrics but it uses wood and oil for its production. The important feature of polyester is that is recyclable, thus wastage of fabric is less unlike other fabrics. Thus polyester fabric manufacturer in India educate the public about the benefits of fabric so that the consumption of the polyester would increase just like cotton which would benefit the environment. Not only in production, polyester garments are stain resistant and uses less energy for washing and drying unlike cotton. These fabrics do not lose their shape or shrink but are not as comfortable to wear as cotton.

Though we consider all these factors of production, we can depict that there are no fabrics that is 100% eco-friendly. But, we try to decrease the causes and effects so that this can be a better place for living and sustaining. The changes can be seen only if the garments and factories use low impactful sources, less consumption of energy in form of water and electricity and many others that would help the environment in the long run. Such practices are being experimented to bring into force and we can hope to see it sooner or later.

The textile manufacturers major contribution should be towards global warming. Every industry small or big needs to be eco-friendly and have a conscious towards the environment hazards. It is true that if the product choose to grow environment friendly then the cost incurred would be more, but also the after effects is beneficial for a healthy living which should be considered a priority here. The actual challenge lies in convincing the customer to use eco-friendly products and switch their mind off the cheap fabrics that causes greater effect to the environment. Let’s hope for a better tomorrow.

Sujeet Kumar is a professional writer who loves to write contents and explore the new ethics of happening in the current world.