Textile dyes consume 10,950,000,000 liters of water every
day and yet 80 billion garments are produced each year.
All stages combined, the textile industry emits 1.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than the world's air and sea traffic combined!
In concrete terms, a pair of jeans can travel 1.5 times around the Earth (65,000 km), and requires 2,000 liters of water, which is ... showers to be produced.
Synthetic fibers are the source of 500,000 tons of plastic discharged into the ocean per year, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles