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Environmental impacts of consumption of textiles per life cycle stage
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The figure shows the contribution of different stages of the life-cylce (production, distribution, use, end-of-life) of textiles to depletion of human health, ecosystem diversity and resource availability.
The data was directly taken from the report: JRC/IPTS, 2014 Environmental improvement potential for textiles (IMPRO-textiles). Authors: Adrien Beton, Debora Dias, Laura Farrant, Thomas Gibon, Yannick Le Guern (BIO Intelligence Service), Marie Desaxce, Anne Perwueltz, Ines Boufateh (ENSAIT), Oliver Wolf, Jiannis Kougoulis, Mauro Cordella, Nicholas Dodd (Editors). The graph shown in the report was simply reproduced, using the data published in the report.
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- Environmental Improvement Potential of textiles (IMPRO Textiles) , http://www.jrc.it
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