About 53% of global cotton fields are irrigated, producing 73% of global cotton production.
Textiles rank amongst the top 3 industries for water pollution and water use. In China, the textile industry discharges double the amount of wastewater discharged by the coal industry...
Dyeing and finishing one ton of fabric in China uses up to 200 tons of water.
11 million garments are being sent to the UK's landfills on a weekly basis.
In Europe, in 2005, about 15-20% of disposed textiles was collected (the rest is landfilled or incinerated), whereof about 50% was downcycled and 50% was reused...
In the UK, around 650,000 tonnes of unwanted clothing are collected annually from different sources including brand take-back schemes.
In the US, less than 20 percent of clothing donations sent to charities are actually resold at those charities.
The world produces 92 million tonnes of textile waste in 2015.
The global Viscose Filament Yarns market is valued at 1508 million USD in 2020 is expected to reach 1884.7 million USD by the end of 2026, growing at a CAGR of 3.2% during 2021-2026.
With an annual production volume of around 6.7 million mt, manmade cellulosics fibers (MMCFs) have a market share of around 6.2 percent of the total fiber production volume.
33% of the world’s arable land is degraded, an issue accelerated by practices such as overgrazing, deforestation, and agriculture.
Fast fashions are constructed so that they typically last no more than 10 wearings.
In 2011, the output of the textile and apparel industry accounted for 6.4% of China's GDP.
The global fashion industry is pumping out 150 billion pieces a year or twenty pieces of new clothing for every single person on the planet, every year.
In 2019, 114 billion units of clothing were sold globally.
The number of items produced within the fashion industry doubled between the year 2000 and 2015 to over 100 billion units annually.
Fiber is the leading end-use segment in the worldwide recycled rPET industry, expected to account for 44.81 percent of the industry volume in 2019.
Approximately 31 Mt (or 67%) of the total amount of PET produced in 2007 was used to make polyester fiber...
The U.S. plastic bottle recycling collection rate was only 28.9% in 2018. And this is trending downward.
China dominates global polyester production, accounting for 72% of the world's polyester filament production and 65% of polyester staple in 2010.
