Environmental Sustainability Management

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
Environmental Sustainability Management
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1ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Life Cycle Assessment....................................................................................................................2
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Estimated weight.........................................................................................................................3
Functional Unit............................................................................................................................4
Material Flow Diagram................................................................................................................4
Impact analysis............................................................................................................................5
Hotspot identification..................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................7
Energy Efficiency............................................................................................................................8
Introduction..................................................................................................................................9
Costs and energy consumption....................................................................................................9
Sources of energy......................................................................................................................10
Mitigation methods....................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................13

2ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
Life Cycle Assessment
Executive Summary
Clothing is an industry that is highly competitive, as a result of the high degree of competition on
the industry, the manufacturers are constantly supplying the consumers with new products. This
leads to generation of a problem that contributes to the diverse effects of the environment. The
implication range from accumulation of clothing to decomposition which degrades the quality of
the environment. The purpose of the paper is to conducts a sustainability analysis of clothing in
terms of the service of recycling, dumping on landfills and incineration of the wastes. An
analysis of the lifecycle of process has been made and the impact hotspots has been identified.

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Introduction
The clothing industry is highly competitive. This results in high amount of innovation
from the part of the companies who are constantly competing to gain competitive advantage over
one another (Hombert and Matray 2018). Thus results in high amount of production of clothing
material. However, this leads to the generation of problems associated with the accumulation of
the wastes. Space conservation is a bug issue in the modern scenario. Hence, this has resulted in
various solutions that people have come up with regarding the measures that are to be adopted in
terms of minimising the wastes associated with accumulation of the garbage (Waste 2018). One
such service is the recycling of the used clothing material (Ekström and Salomonson 2014). The
clothing can be reused and come up as a solution that help in the mitigation of the solution that is
associated with waste accumulation. Hence, the desirable service is recycling clothing. The
alternatives are dumping of the clothes in landfills and incineration to reduce the volume of the
clothing. The aim paper is to highlight the importance of sustainable management of the clothing
related waste and the impact of the same. The process that has been recommended by ISO in
terms of operations. The process would be monitored from the beginning of the lifecycle of the
product. The process will start from the point of the manufacture of the product, throughout the
stages of the supply chain, use of the product, recycling at the recycling facility and offering for
recycle.
Estimated weight
The estimated weight of the recycled product and that of the original products would be
similar with approximate differences. The materials that are needed for the production of the
clothing items include materials such as linen, wool, silk, leather, denim, polyester and other
colouring agents. The following is the representation of the materials needed for the production