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Guide: Unravelling sustainable wood sourcing for garment, textile and footwear industry
This guide will help you to understand the issues around firewood sourcing in the apparel sector and provide you with the Biomass Energy Production and Consumption Framework to help work towards more sustainable firewood sourcing.
Who the guide is for:
- Sustainability managers at brands and suppliers.
- Anyone interested in how apparel manufacturers can implement more sustainable firewood sourcing strategies.
Did you know?
About half of the garment factories use wood for steam production, mostly for washing, ironing and dying.
Sweater and denim factories, which have high steam requirements, primarily rely on wood,
Among those, 76% rely on forest wood.
This guide will help you to:
- The issues and current state of play with existing firewood sourcing in the apparel industry.
- Implement a more sustainable firewood sourcing strategy.
What the guide covers:
- Facts and figures on the demand for firewood in the apparel industry.
- It provides a Sustainable Biomass Energy Production and Consumption Framework.
- A roadmap for the garment sector to achieve sustainable steam production using biomass fuel
About this guide:
This guide was produced with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the European Union (EU SWITCH-Asia Program) and Agence française de développement (AFD). Its contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the GIZ, EU and AFD.
Making real change.
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