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The raising and production of organic natural fibers and their manufacturing into fabric and apparel would have a small impact on improving Global Warming. All the hazardous and toxic chemicals involved in conventional cotton clothing contributes hugely to poisoning our planet’s agricultural lands, turning ground water and rivers into potentially carcinogenic waste waters, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of agricultural workers worldwide, encouraging the social pollution of sweatshops, and aggravating chemical sensitivities and health problems in a growing number of people wearing conventional chemical clothing. Increase in the elongation of textiles, has simultaneously led to incretion in pollution, high energy consumption and harmful emissions. It is being estimated that clothing is responsible for one ton of individual's CO2 emissions involved in the process of washing and drying.

The textile and garment industries share in contributing to Global Warming from the growing of fibers through manufacturing through distribution and transportation of clothing to stores and customers through energy guzzling and conventional dry cleaners and finally ending in mountains of discarded clothes. Here is a partial list of the ways that the clothing, garment and textile industries contribute to global warming and environmentally-friendly green steps that can be taken to reduce the impact to global warming. We’ll work our way through the clothing product lifecycle from beginning to end.

Now, with the imminent threat of global warming, and developing consumer awareness of the ecological impact, there is a demand among people for eco friendly clothing, and energy efficient products. Increase of the consumers' interest towards eco friendly clothing is in parallel to the concern for the planet's future.
As a developing country with unbroached markets, India lacks sensitivity to the practice of eco friendly production. Although a fringe intellectual trend and weak policy posture is evident. Adequate production strategies are not incorporated for sustainable way of production. Green manufacturing and recycled materials will be become a 'short-term trend' if specific standards are not set, and practices are not followed religiously.

The industry needs to proactively work towards a sustainable supply of chain. Cotton waste recycling, low carbon manufacturing programme, carbon accounting in factories, and carbon footprint calculation projects. Benchmarking energy consumption across the textile and apparel supply chain are some issues that need to be done on private-public partnership mode. Being one of the few countries with an integrated supply chain in place, India can ensure a sustainable chain from fibre to apparel.