New York Post- Wearing jeans is bad for Earth, study finds
The haute timelessness of the togs notwithstanding, recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions. The environmental wear-and-tear of the pants is equivalent to driving 6.4 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.
“Jeans production and cross-broad transportation contributed 91 % of the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption,” added the experts.
Well, I have foregone the 6.4 miles during China’s Wuhan Covid, and will happily wear my 4 pairs of well-worn probably American jeans, which are over 15 years old. What a useless flicking study! I hope this person did not get a degree.
Actually, China, I would rather buy clothes here in North America, as your stuff is often cheap and crappy. Save your carbon and do not bother shipping. I learned that as a kindergartener in the 1960’s, shopping for toys with my allowance. If the toy was made in China, it broke.
She died with her jeans on.
‘made in china it broke’
lve noticed some products are sooooo cheapened down THEY NO LONGER FUNCTION.
found a plastic back scratcher at dollarama.
plastic, not wood so it flEEEEEEEExed instead of ‘pressing against the skin’ to get a good scratch.
and too short to reach everywhere.
and l had to take a sander to the ‘fingertips’ that merely ‘rubbed’ instead of that ‘digging in, claw away with the nails’ effect.
cheapened down to the level IT NO LONGER FUNCTIONS
Don’t even get me started on my dollar store Chinese recycling money laundering scam theory.
Its not research, its propaganda.
And it only works on sheeple.
A Guangdong University study.
Might be more believable than a Harvard study these days
It should be clear to one and all that the eco-nuts want to commit mass murder on a level that would make Mao blush.
These are the people who currently hold the reins of power, and they are implementing their sickened desires as they attack food and energy production. I guess textile production is a bit lower on their list.
So the life cycle of a pair of jeans is seven uses? The things I learn here.
Not sure why we needed to include a picture of cars on a smog filled hiway which may or may not have been photoshopped but I’m sure NYPost had their reasons.
My favourite – “Rather than blowing around $120 a month with buzzy brands, the Londoner now shops with a much more eco-friendly eye.
“If I do buy stuff consciously,” said Lashley. “I need to know I’m going to wear them again and again.”
*Slow clap* Yayyyyyy Lashley!!!
Not sure how to tell her this but hair products and makeup will be next on the environmental hit list which’ll surely have her in the fetal position sucking her thumb in existential angst.
You can’t wear cotton. You can’t wear fleece. You can’t wear leather or wool. You can’t wear polyester without a mullet. Naked it is then.
The less stitches the more riches.
Women have a serious environmental footprint when it comes to clothing due to their fashion sense. Men, on the other hand and to the horror of their women, tend to wear their clothes out.
Is this observation just anecdotal?
No,it is well established fact.
Now I’m going to bang over a moose or elk and wear the hides. They are NOT leather until they’re tanned and treated, so au naturel can’t be disputed.
NO. It’s a fact, CC.
I’d like to say you’re wrong but my closet is full and my overflow clothing goes into my husband’s closet and the closet of our kid who is in college. Though I frequently find my clothing and shoes have somehow migrated to my daughters closets. Then there’s my gardening and canning equipment collection.
To be fair though, my husband’s garage/workshop is overflowing with tools and he often buys things he already has. Plus hunting, fishing and camping equipment, 2 barbecue grills, 2 smokers, a quad…
I think people are fed up with being scolded by “experts”, journalists and politicians about their personal choices about food, clothing, hobbies, vehicles, vacations etc. Their needs to be a Mind Your Own Damn Business movement to remind elected officials to butt out of citizens lives. Politicians are our employees, not our bosses.
Touche! I like it.
Fot the DEI crowd, since it is now unjust to judge, is it alright to wear socks with sandals?
Womens’ clothing costs more for the same item. As well, even slobs like well-dressed women, not tarts.
Most Canadian men dress like complete slobs, even wearing worn-out clothing, 10 years past it’s best before date. They also wear the wrong colours for their complexion and wear cheap fabrics (few people look attractive in brown and yuck green boy colours).
A lack of fashion sense is worn proudly on the sleeve of the Mark’s work warehouse crap they bought last: a real, harda$$ man. That is why any REAL women shop for their man. Some gays know how to dress.
They then happily throw everything in the washer occasionally and leave it in the dryer until completely wrinkled and harvest the pile of wrikled clothing. Matched socks, optional.
Real men don’t try (and wouldn’t begin to know how) to match their complexion with the colour of their clothes and fart and belch at men who do. Good grief! Besides, I like brown and that’s what matters.
So, I buy decent jeans. They generally last me 4-7 years. They go through undreds of washings and wearings.
Fast fashion is garbage. Throwaway culture is garbage.
Read a study somewhere, that I sincerely hope was one of those BS made up ones, that the average US consumer tosses around 80 lbs of clothes per year? If anywhere near true, that’s a staggering number. I don’t believe the total of my wife and my wardrobes is that much, and we wear our stuff for years.
People are wearing their jeans just once? Or even as many as seven times??
Seems to me that’s why we buy washing machines. So the clothes can be worn many times without getting the odorous wearer evicted from the supermarket. Maybe in China, where they did this study, they don’t have laundry equipment. Or maybe, at Chinese retail prices, it’s cheaper to buy new jeans than to have them cleaned.
Something I could never understand: The brand-new torn/worn jeans thing. And the big extra charge for the abuse required to create them. Yes, we had some dumb styles 50 and 60 years ago, but ratty, drafty stuff like that?
My jeans have had 780 washings (15 yrs. x once a week each). Each hole is from wear-and-tear, not bought off a rack.
I own jeans that I bought in the 1990s, so I’m not an environmental criminal from the China Fast Fashion copy sweatshops…
What do watermelons (Green on the outside, red on the inside) call 100 million deaths attributed to communism?
“A good start!”
It’s not quite related but I know a young guy who wears torn (distressed is the favoured term) jeans. On a visit back home in the Czech Republic he arose one morning to discover that his grandmother had “mended” them.
xMen – Good for her!! Have observed, when visiting eastern Europe, that “distressed” clothing is rarely seen. Suspect it may be because – during the Communist era – said clothing was not optional. Do hope Granny read him a lecture when returned the mended clothing. It says something about our culture when ripped jeans are more trendy and more expensive than ordinary ones.
Well, at least in Prague, torn jeans are fairly frequently seen.
Love it!!!
We have somehow have to find an island for all these lefty idiots to habitat. Instructions should be very clear should they try to leave the island they will be shot
My “wardrobe,” for the last 60 plus years, could fit into a medium sized suitcase.
I wear what it is till it is threadbare. One pair of Jeans every 10 years, etc.
As Guy Clark said….
“I’ve got an old blue shirt. suits me just fine. I like the way it feels, so I wear it all the time.”
My best day was burning my clip on tie, when it was needed to make money and fit in.
Now is all sweat pants and t shirts, me lovelies.
Oh, and bless my wife of 40 years, as her stuff is commensurate with mine. In fact, she just stole my sweatshirt.
One good thing about all this Covid bollocks…I’d been “working” from home ever since.
Be darned if I know where my pants are…
Dano – do hope your working from home does not involve video.
D’ya remember back when Soviet kids would sell everything they owned just to GET a pair of jeans? Jeans were a symbol of Western decadence to the Politburo bureaucrats … so the young generation of Soviet kids lusted for the symbol of Western independence.
THAT is why we’re seeing this story. Because blue jeans are symbols of Western capitalism. Western Freedom. Western youth. For this reason … the leftists HATE blue jeans. And the global warming nonsense is all about destroying Western success and capitalism. Nothing else.
It’s no more complicated than that
As to the symbolic importance of blue jeans:
https://youtu.be/NZnryZ5rDbs?si=UHOnjzwpwQFa9KjD
As to their association with the evils of capitalism: well, if this song isn’t the oppression of the proletariat, I don’t know wnat is:
https://youtu.be/vwGlhKcEBjY?si=t-z_OblPWVHAcHFw
Stevie, I bet you and wifey eat crappy food too, heavy carbo. Enjoy yourselves and diabetes pills. No one should own sweat pants, certainly not with matching hoodies. Slop meets slob.
A well-dressed man in a reasonably expensive blazer and laundered shirt has always been my pick since grad school. Even raised in the interior BC, he knew that a good navy blazer goes well with good grey slacks. I threw out my husband’s ugly clothes and bought him executive shorts and well-fitting t-shirts for gardening. When he died, he had 4 Harry Rosen suits, very good shoes and dozens of ties. He liked to have me pick ties for a business day.
Most women adored my husband, as he had a full head of hair in his late 40’s, but he knew who his proud wife was. I made sure that he ate well, and he cooked too. Yes, I did spend $$ on clothes, gowns for important events, but it was worth it, as we were a beautiful couple, attracting eyes from the Governor General and proudly representing Canada abroad. I would rather wear old jeans and gowns.
You will lose that bet Ms Deplorable. I know Stevie and his wife, they both eat a very healthy diet, they are not over-weight. For what it’s worth, they have a very small carbon foot print and they live a minimalist lifestyle. They are retired in one of Canada’s most desirable places to retire …. They make lovely art and music. Both have a full head of hair whilst you have a full head of air.
It would appear that you are are judgmental @$$hole with zero facts. And do you still go to work each morning? Or was Mr. Blue Blazer rich enough to be married to a bitter piece of work like you?
My condolences on the passing of your husband.
Have a nice day.
aaaannnnd here we have the latest idiocy.