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ECO FASHION WEAR
Domestic machinery and furniture
Main article: Home appliances
Automobiles, home appliances and furnitures can be designed for repair and disassembly (for recycling), and constructed from recyclable materials such as steel, aluminum and glass, and renewable materials, such as Zelfo, wood and plastics from natural feedstocks. Careful selection of materials and manufacturing processes can often create products comparable in price and performance to non-sustainable products. Even mild design efforts can greatly increase the sustainable content of manufactured items.
Energy sector
Main articles: Solar energy and Alternative energy
See also: Solar thermal collector, Solar panel, and Passive solar building design
Sustainable technology in the energy sector is based on utilizing renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, geothermal, and hydrogen. Wind energy is the world's fastest growing energy source; it has been in use for centuries in Europe and more recently in the United States and other nations. Wind energy is captured through the use of wind turbines that generate and transfer electricity for utilities, homeowners and remote villages. Solar power can be harnessed through photovoltaics, concentrating solar, or solar hot water and is also a rapidly growing energy source.[40] Advancements in the technology and modifications to photovoltaics cells provide a more in depth untouched method for creating and producing solar power. Researchers Rabinowitch have found a potential way to use the photogalvanic effect to transform sunlight into electric energy. [41]
Sustainable fashion, also called eco fashion, is a part of the growing design philosophy and trend of sustainability, the goal of which is to create a system which can be supported indefinitely in terms of human impact on the environment and social responsibility. It can be seen as an alternative trend against fast fashion.
Eco-couture
Recycled fibers
Recycled or reclaimed fibers are made from scraps of fabrics collected from clothing factories, which are processed back into short fibers for spinning into a new yarn. There are only a few facilities globally that are able to process the clippings.[citation needed] Variations range from a blend of recycled cotton fibers with added RePET yarns for strength to recycled cotton fibers with virgin acrylic fibers which are added for color consistency and strength.
Upcycled fibers
Upcycled fibers are made from materials that are not originally used to make fibers, or they were thrown away being considered trash from origin. This includes fibers made of plastic and gillnets. An example of the use of this type of fiber can be seen in the shoe Adidas made with Parley for the Oceans.[11]
Another example is fish leather made from fish skins that are a by-product of the food industry.[12] Fish leather tanning is less harmful on the environment due to no hair-removal being required, leading to less solid waste and organic pollutants in the wastewater from the process.[13] Also, no poisonous, explosive hydrogen sulfide gas is released in the process.[14]
Designers
The Golden Book Gown made of recycled book pages.
Designers say that they are trying to incorporate these sustainable practices into modern clothing, rather than producing "hippie clothes".[15] Due to the efforts taken to minimize harm in the growth, manufacturing, and shipping of the products, sustainable fashion is typically more expensive than clothing produced by conventional methods.[15]
Various celebrities, models, and designers have recently drawn attention to socially conscious and environmentally friendly fashion.
La mode éthique est aussi parfois « ethnique », s'inspirant de modèles traditionnels pour des raisons esthétiques et/ou fonctionnelles (pagne, paréo, vêtements péruviens, etc.), en faisant produire les étoffes ou leurs décors dans les pays d'origine.