its a details p[presentation considering sustainable issues for producing cotton t-shirt here the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEExMcjSkwA

1. Story of a Product

2. The Product We have Selected for
Sustainable Issues

3. The Reason Behind for selecting The Cotton T-Shirt

4. The Reason Behind for selecting The
Cotton T-Shirt
• A cotton T-shirt requires 2700
liters of water which is enough for
one person to drink for 900 days.
• It takes lots of energy to grow,
manufacture, transport & mostly
,it needs energy to care for it.
• One load of drying uses 5x more
energy than washing.
• One load of washing uses 40
gallons of water.

5. The Reason Behind for selecting The
Cotton T-Shirt
• Now think how often you wash &
dry your cotton t-shirt?
• Don’t we have plenty of resources?
Plenty of water? Yes but,97% of
water is salty .nearly 2% is locked in
snow or in ice .That leaves less than
1% water that we can access.
• Now think yourself how many t-shirt
in your closet , city, Country or are
on the planet ?

6. The Supply Chain of a Cotton T-Shirt (Basic Types )
Manufacture

7. The Supply Chain of a Cotton T-Shirt

8. Sustainability Issues for Harvesting cotton
• Unsustainable Use of Water.
• Unsustainable use of Cultivated land.
• Unsafe use of agricultural chemicals has severe health
impacts on workers in the field and on ecosystems that
receive excess doses that run-off from farms.
• Lack of rest time.
• Unsustainable cotton farming, with massive inputs of water
and pesticides, has already been responsible for the
destruction of large-scale ecosystems such as the Aral Sea in
central Asia and the deteriorating health and livelihoods of
people living there.
• Many small farmers in the South fall ill or die due to a lack
of adequate equipment and knowledge about how to
handle pesticides properly.
• However, a farmer’s income from his cotton harvest is often
lower than the cost of the inputs due to low crop yields and
market prices, driving more and more farmers into debt.

9. Sustainability Issues for Spinning & Knitting
• The spinning, weaving and
knitting stages use a lot of
energy ( loss of huge energy).
• Produce solid waste and
generate huge dust and noise.
• Also involve the use of
lubricants and oils to strengthen
and protect the fibers from the
stresses of processing which
cause our Operator’s health
risks.

10. Sustainability Issues for
Manufacturing Process
• Safety Issues.
• Most of the machineries cause
noise, sound and air pollution.
• Over-usage of natural
resources like plants, water,
etc depletes or disturbs
ecological balance.
• Sometimes machine cause the
reduction of the quality of the
product which cause
economical loss.
• Fatal Working disease.
• Wages and salaries issues.

11. Sustainability Issues for Dyeing
• An estimated 17% to 20% of industrial
water pollution comes from textile dyeing
along with environmental pollution.
• Dyeing alone can account for most of the
water used in producing a garment; unfixed
dye then often washes out of garments,
and can end up coloring the rivers, as
treatment plants fail to remove them from
the water. Dye fixatives – often heavy
metals – also end up in sewers and then
rivers .
• Very much injurious to health.
• Not Cost effective.

12. Sustainability Issues for Washing
• Enzymes, bleaches, perfumes and colorants used in chemical detergents are
absorbed into our bodies when they come into contact with our skin. Some of
these toxic chemicals have even been linked to cancer, allergies and birth
defects.
• Furthermore, when washing clothes, 90% of energy used goes to heating the
water.
• Washing a 5 kg load of laundry every two days creates nearly 440 kg of carbon
dioxide emissions in a year.
• Washing using a top loading machine, at 13500 gallons of water per year.

13. Sustainability Issues for Labeling and finishing
• Chemicals used for finishing contain,
amongst many others, heavy metals like
copper, chromium and cobalt which are
known hormone disrupters, and
formaldehyde, a chemical.
• Formaldehydes are used in wrinkle-free, non
iron finishing but also as a fixing agent for
cotton. It is an irritant to the skin and also a
hormone disrupter.
• Produced huge wastes in finishing section
which cause economical loss
• Finishing agent is harmful for the
environment as well as the product
• Finishing is the chief cause of environmental
impacts in the production phase, using
significant quantities of water, energy and
chemicals and producing substantial amounts
of effluence.

14. Sustainability Issues for Transportation
• Air pollution.
• Noise pollution.
• Cause of Global Warming.
• 15% of global Carbon dioxide emission are attributed to the transport
sector.
• The environmental impact of shipping includes greenhouse gas emissions,
acoustic, and oil pollution.
• It could take weeks and hundreds of workers to load / unload a ship

15. Sustainability Issues for
Packaging
• Packaging takes a lot of energy, water and
other natural resources to produce.
• Packaging waste pollutes our air, water and
soil. In fact, 1.9 million tones of packaging
waste produces the same amount of
greenhouse gas as 860,000 cars. The litter it
creates also ends up in many places that it
shouldn’t - blocking our storm water drains
and causing serious problems for our regular
life.
• Not all the energy used to create packaging
can be recovered by recycling.
• Negative health Effect.
• Diverting solid waste.

16. Sustainability Issues for Marketing
• The Dirty Side of the marketing on
Environment and Society exposes
how clever marketing tactics
designed to increase demand
skillfully hide this reality.
• Creating Illusions.
• Misguide the targeted audience.
• The excessive costs of a product
caused by marketing.
• Misrepresentation
• Bad marketing is disturbing the
fundamentals of communication
and thus sales factor.

17. Sustainability Issues for Retail store
• Lack of Oversight.
• Geographic Complications.
• Additional Costs.
• Additional Considerations.
• Huge waste of Energy.
• Customer Service.
• Dissatisfaction.

18. Sustainability Issues for Consumers
• Pricing Issues.
• Risk and fundamental product characteristics.
• Stakeholders less commitment to society and
environment.
• Look for companies who practice Fair Trade,
which means providing fair wages to local
workers and treating them with dignity and
respect, in a safe, healthy workplace.
• Avoid any garment that is advertised as being
anti-shrink, antibacterial, antimicrobial,
antistatic, anti-odor, anti-flame, anti-wrinkle, or
anti-stain. These all contain chemicals not
tested for safety on humans.

19. Sustainability Issues for Recycling
• Recycling cotton clothes isn’t simple
• Chopping-up process during
recycling tends to lower the cotton’s
quality .
• Debris from the activity of collecting
and sorting the recycling can
contain hazardous chemicals and be
dangerous to recycling workers. You
can reduce this negative effect of
recycling by carefully sorting your
recyclables and making sure not to
include dangerous items.

20. Sustainability Issues for Disposal
• Pollution from wasted energy and occupied landfill space.
• Incineration.
• Water treatment.
• Products that are not biodegradable or are slow to decompose
can remain in landfill sites for centuries, often emitting gases
that could be harmful to the environment.

21. At a Glance: Sustainable issues of a Cotton T--Shirt

22. Prioritize Issues of a Cotton T-Shirt
Customer
Dissatisfaction
1
2
Marketing Ethical
Issues
3 Quality
Issue
4 Wastage
5
Pricing
Issue
6
Plastics
7
Transportation
8
Pollution
9
Health Issues
10
Fertilizer/
chemical
11
Energy
12
Water
High
Low
(Significant of Economic, Environmental, and Social Impacts)

23. Strategy for sustainable water Solution
Water Resources are limited and we need to
handle them reasonably and responsibly.
The environmental impact of textile
production is considerable due to the vast
quantity of water required and the variety
of chemicals used that generates waste.
Therefore, Water consumption Should be
reduced in textile. As we know 700gallons of
water is required to produce a single cotton
t-shirt , that why the sustainable of water
are given below-
• Provide affordable water supplies to poor
communities by building on local experience
and skills.
• Increases availability of potable water and
reducing water cost by purifying wastewater
for industry and irrigation.

24. Strategy for sustainable water Solution
• Eco-efficient Solutions : After-soaping
agent for reactive- dyed cellulose fibers.
Compared to the conventional process, it
considerably shortens the processing
time, saving both water and energy.
• Reduced chemical used which caused
water harm.
• To optimize water resource management
and increase desalination and water
reuse.
• Awareness create
• Conscious production.
• Technological Development.

25. Closing Thoughts
If we maintain above three instruction during any product supply chain ,hope that our
sustainable issues will be reduced ,Because there is no -

26. Thank you for your Patience

27. Any Questions?