Life Cycle Analysis of the products of a lingerie startup

Abstract

El imparable crecimiento de la industria de la moda, que actualmente supone la séptima potencia económica mundial, sumado a su tendencia de llevar un ciclo de vida, la hace uno de los sectores menos sostenibles. La industria de la lencería, que forma parte del sector está completamente fuera del foco de los medios en lo que a sosteniblidad se refiere. Este estudio propone un análisis de una empresa pequeña del sector que tiene un firme compromiso con la sostenibilidad. Al final del estudio los resultados revelan los resultados ambientales y se proponen posibles mejoras.

The fashion industry has suffered an unstoppable growth in the last decades. This growth isn't aligned with sustainability goals, but there are means to change this tendency. Underwear, as part of the fashion indus-try, also needs to change the linear unsustainable path followers until the moment. LCA is able to provide data about the processes that have the most important impacts in the life of a product, in order to make improvements. This study uses Life Cycle Assessment to analyze a particular brand that started its business un 2021 with the purpose of being sustainable to explore which parts of the value chain have the greatest environmental impacts. The results show that the materials used have less impact than the direct organic substitutes and that the stages that are causing the biggest impact in the whole life cycle are the fabrication process of the main textiles used and the use cycle.