Marley's Monsters Blog — scrap felt

  Textile-based manufacturing, including the fashion industry, is one of the leading industries globally, and it produces more waste than any other manufacturing industry. In the last 40 years, the production of chemical and textile fibers has increased from 23.94 million metric tons to 105.6 million metric tons—an increase of more than four times. As demand has grown, so have concerns about the environmental impact of fiber production and disposal operations. Along with the enormous increase in pollutants going into water systems and ecologies, as well as huge amounts of energy waste, 92 Millions Tons of fabric are wasted annually...