The Transfer to Sustainable Fashion: How The Textile and Clothing Industry Promote Waste

the textile industry is the second largest industry in manufacturing. The textile industry pays a huge contribution to the fashion and clothing industry by acting as its base, however with the high and on-going demand in clothing and garments “Fast Fashion”, and overconsumption are increasing as well moreover leading to a substantial and sequential rise in environmental issues and concerns such as pollution. The textile and fashion industry are the highest polluting industries, playing a critical role in water consumption and pollution, solid waste pollution as well as resource depletion. Due to its greatly negative impacts on our environment in addition to our environment’s current deteriorating state, global organizations such as the European Union (EU) as well as individual designers and the fashion and textile industry as a whole’s implementing techniques for sustainable fashion in order to sustain a green environment and lifestyle as well as promote a circular economy. Clothing has a significant influence on Saudi Arabia’s tradition and culture. Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030 is following a green initiative and in order to succor a sustainable approach Saudi designers and entrepreneurs are following sustainable fashion and clothing as an eco-friendly alternative. The essence of green chemistry as well as up-cycling redesigning are used in the sustainable clothing industry, in addition to implementing regulations and laws.