Assessment of Carbon Footprint for the Textile Sector in France

Global warming represents a major subject on all society levels including governments, economic actors and citizens. The textile industry is often considered polluting activity. In this project, French manufacturers sought to quantify the carbon footprint (CF) of sold clothes household linen using Life Cycle Assessment in France for purpose reducing it meet constraints Paris Agreement by 2050. First, calculated 17 products established alternative scenarios four production routes. Secondly, they modeled supply upstream sector through different countries. Based imports products, their CF one person reaches 442 kg CO2eq/year. Means action reduce factor 6 (74 CO2eq/person/year textiles) are following: installing most energy-intensive processes country with low electricity mix, avoiding unsold goods, implementing eco-design approaches enhancing value end-of-life reuse or recycling. Therefore, textiles per capita reduced 43 CO2eq/year which goes beyond objectives facilitates neutrality sector. first priority would be locate countries (i) electricity, (ii) items, (iii) elaborate ecodesign product circular economy.