Four tips to reduce the CO₂ emitted in the jeans production

Stop burning coal! Burning coal sounds an old technique, but it is still in practice in many countries around the world to produce heat. In 2021 coal burning reached the highest level of greenhouse gas emissions of 15.3 billion tons, more than 40% of total emissions!

Moving away from coal is essential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Alternative sources to coal include natural gas and biomass. Laundries should work hard to replace coal, and this measure needs to be valued by brands and communicated to end consumers.

Shift to renewable electricity: solar and wind power are alternatives to reduce the use of coal, fossil fuels and non-renewable energy. The implementation of solar panels is perhaps the best-known solution and the most economically viable at the moment, as the prices for this implementation have been reducing year after year. Large laundries in the world already use this technology and contribute to lower carbon dioxide emissions.

Don’t use pumice stones! The use of stones is another old-fashioned process still present in jeans washes. Besides the environmental impacts of extracting and discharging the stones, the stones require extensive transportation, increasing the emission of greenhouse gases as trucks burn fossil fuels. Avoid using stones.

Today, the utilization of enzymes can achieve equivalent results, as it is the case of the kemzymes line. To learn more about how to eliminate pumice stones from the jeans manufacturing process, read our article on this topic!

Implement processes that reduce CO₂ emissions: several new processes can help you work at lower temperatures, reducing the use of heat and combustible fuels. One of example is the smart foam technology,  launched by Garmon in 2019.

This technology goes beyond saving water and can help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, since all processes are performed at room temperature, meaning no hot water, drastically reducing emissions.