Planet Blog

First of all, pillar include the planet, people, profit and purpose. For the planet, many business leaders recognise their negative impact on the environment and want to adopt sustainability strategies such as using compliant materials and streamlining transportation processes to address issues such as climate change, poverty, and inequality in order to achieve business success. Planet is one of the most important directions for achieving sustainability. Second, circular economy is divided into two parts which are technical and biological. Circular economy exists because it is hoped that the resource will be used for a longer period of time and that maximizing the use of the resource will lead to better solutions to the existing problems of the planet. Third,

sustainability has a big relationship with fashion like many fashion brands put sustainability first (Vivienne Westwood, Guerlain, Miu Miu etc.) and consumers now attach great importance to the sustainability of brands, brands are also adopting new technologies to sustainability to reduce the environmental pollution caused by the fashion industry. On the Prada group website. It shows “Upcycled by Miu Miu is a special collection of vintage dresses reworked and transformed by Miu Miu, carefully sourced from vintage clothing stores and markets worldwide. “But they did it for a reason. “following the petroleum industry, the fashion industry is the second largest cause of pollution worldwide” (G. & B, 2019) and”  Impacts from the fashion industry include over 92 million tonnes of waste produced per year and 79 trillion litres of water consumed” (Niinimäki et al., 2020). Fourth, nowadays we have 17 SDGS, they are sustainable development goals and the one of goals which life below water has a lot to do with and influences the fashion industry.They cited ways to address the problem, such as reducing marine pollution and ocean acidification, to which the fashion industry has contributed.According to the research”It can be composed of the wastes and particles of abandoned waste textile products, synthetic garments and their fragments produce plastic particle”(Kumartasli & Avinc, 1970). And textiles not only produce plastic particles in production, but even our daily laundry can cause plastic particles to detach from the clothes due to friction. “Microfibers and microfibrils, which may be generated during ordinary home laundry cycles due to the agitation and beating nature of the washing process and end up in sewage, are also a subcategory of microplastics. Ingestion of microplastic and microparticle marine litter can cause many health problems”(Kumartasli & Avinc, 1970)，This suggests that plastics not only affect the environment in which marine life lives but also the health of the marine life itself. And “ It is stated that approximately 90% of the marine litter is composed of plastic material wastes and 5–13 million tonnes of plastic waste litter are released to the marine-related environment per year.” (Kumartasli & Avinc, 1970). And while plastics currently make up a large portion of the ocean, they take a long time to degrade. “egradation of these plastic waste litters in the marine environment needs centuries”(Kumartasli & Avinc, 1970). So plastic particles are growing at an alarming rate every year, but it takes a long time for them to degrade naturally, which means that the marine environment is getting worse and worse, and the underwater creatures will have health problems due to the change in the marine environment and the accidental ingestion of plastics, so we need to protect the marine environment by buying fewer clothes and washing fewer clothes!

Bibliography

• Upcycled by Miu Miu (no date) PradaGroup. Available at:https://www.pradagroup.com/en/sustainability/environment-csr/upcycled-by-miu-miu.html (Accessed: 07 October 2023).
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