Consumers can influence the environmental impact of their wool clothing by increasing the active lifetime of a garment, according to a new study from the Woolmark Company, a not-for-profit global authority on wool.
Titled ‘Environmental impacts associated with the production, use, and end-of-life of a woollen garment’, the study has been published in International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment and is the world’s first peer-reviewed textile fibre cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study.