A comparison with the CO2 emissions, to get a sense of the scale of the problem.
>> Globally, that’s the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles being burned or going into landfill every second.
Globally we put a bit more than 1000 tons of CO2 in the air every second.
An average garbage truck has a volume of about 20 cubic meters. Textiles are pretty fluffy, their density is about one tenth the density of water [1], so we have about 2 tons of textiles in a garbage truck. If all gets burned, you end up with about 6 tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.
An average garbage truck has a volume of about 20 cubic meters. Textiles are pretty fluffy, their density is about one tenth the density of water [1], so we have about 2 tons of textiles in a garbage truck. If all gets burned, you end up with about 6 tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.
[1] https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-03/documents/co...