Abstract:
Textile Clothing is essential for humans and a part of our daily life. The main
purpose of clothing is to provide protection but with affordance, clothing became
the symbol of modesty and attraction giving rise to a fashion industry for which
nothing is ever enough. Today, clothing industry is worth more than 1.3 Trillion
USD, employing more than 300 Million workers and is the second largest polluter
in the world after oil and gas. The textile industry works in a linear fashion. Its
take, make, use and dispose of which is unnatural, wasteful and polluting. It has
given rise to a throw-away society, influenced by consumerism, which has
dropped the utilization of clothing drastically. Currently, we throw away about
80% of our end of use clothing into landfills and this clothing can be used as raw
materials for the textile industry.
This is where the circular Approach comes in. In a circular approach, it's about
maximizing the utility of a resource while producing minimum waste. In contrast
with the linear approach, it is regenerative and distributive. Circular Approach in
clothing means that all the end of use clothing will be returned into the cycle to
be used as raw material, reducing stress on virgin raw materials and economics
of this industry. This Project intends to Design a tangible system that can help in
making fashion circular.
