1 / 9

Life Cycle of the Jean

Life Cycle of the Jean. Paige Mumford Angela Kong Michael Tzeng Per. 2 IED. Overview. Raise & Extract. Cotton Farming in the fields Half of water used in product’s full life cycle < 5% of raw materials used are sources other than cotton Indigo dye farmed in fields. Process.

lavina
Download Presentation

Life Cycle of the Jean

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Life Cycle ofthe Jean Paige Mumford Angela Kong Michael Tzeng Per. 2 IED

  2. Overview

  3. Raise & Extract • Cotton Farming in the fields • Half of water used in product’s full life cycle • < 5% of raw materials used are sources other than cotton • Indigo dye farmed in fields

  4. Process • Fabric Production • Textile mills turn cotton fiber into fabric • Dye is extracted from the indigo plant • In Mexico - largest mill supplier has waste water treatment plant • Can recycle approx. 75% of its water  production, rest rooms, landscape irrigation

  5. Manufacture • Contracted suppliers • Cut, sew, finish • Buttons are added onto to cloth

  6. Transportation & Distribution • Low carbon-using transport. • rail and container ships • to retail, online, wholesale locations

  7. Use • Clothing article • Largest environmental impacts • Reduce lifecycle climate change impact by 50% - line drying & cold water washing • 58% of energy & 45% of water from lifetime in this phase

  8. Dispose • Recycled fiber • new fashions/products • housing insulation • Levi’s - recycled denim insulation in San Francisco • 24 billion lbs clothing per year  landfills 

  9. Citations • Camp, Scott, Gordon Clark, Laura Duane, and Aaron Haight. "Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability Report." Http://www.uvm.edu. Http://www.uvm.edu. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.uvm.edu/~shali/Levi.pdf>. • "An Environmental Product Declaration of Jeans." Http://www.ademe.fr/internet/eco-jean/EPD_en_jeans_v2.pdf. Agence De L'Environnement Et De La Maîtrise De L'Energie. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.ademe.fr/internet/eco-jean/EPD_en_jeans_v2.pdf>. • "Goodwill Green." Goodwill of Silicon Valley. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.goodwillsv.org/goodwill-green>. • "Life Cycle of a Jean | Levi Strauss & Co." Levi Strauss. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.levistrauss.com/sustainability/product/life-cycle-jean>.

More Related