EFFECTS OF DISPOSITION OF CLOTHES

 STORY BY: Nketia Benedicta Asabea

      


  Clothes disposal has become a part and parcel of life of many people. Most people deem it as their second choice immediately when their clothes are too tight for them, too big for them, when a button or a zip removes from it, and the sad part is when they feel they have worn a particular clothe for a very long and for that matter needs to be thrown away and refill it. This decision of theirs in one way or the other destroys the atmosphere and our surroundings which many do not have any idea about.     

Clothes disposal negates sustainability in the environment. To sustain means to keep going or support it over time. It's like preserving something so it can continue to exist. But by discarding clothes, we get deprived of the opportunities to reduce, reuse it for other stuff or even recycling it into different sizes and shapes thereby undermining sustainable practices. Microplastics are caused by disposal of clothes. These are tiny pieces of plastics that are less than 5millilitres in size. Therefore fiber from some synthetic clothing shed micro plastics and they end up in the environment including oceans and water ways. They can have harmful effect on marine life when ingested. 




        According to research, Transporting and disposing of clothes generate greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. It is the release of gases or particles into the atmosphere which is caused by burning of clothes and other human activities. These emissions can contribute to air pollution which destroys the ozone and climate change. It's important to reduce emissions in order to mitigate the negative impacts on the environment and human health. 

       Waste production is also another challenge is clothes disposal.  Discarded clothes contribute to landfill waste taking up space and releasing harmful substances. Discarded clothes fills up unnecessarily on some part of the land which could have been used to create maybe a factory for beneficial purposes and in a long run even reduce unemployment. These clothes fill up the place causes huge waste which does not benefit the society  putting a threat to human health.   In a nutshell, disposal of clothes or discarding clothes causes wastage of resources, in the sense that producing clothes resources such as water, energy and other raw materials. Therefore throwing them away will be a waste of the resources; wastage of energy and other raw materials. 

        Disposal of clothes causes a lot of negative impacts in the society which at the end destroys our environment and also human health therefore it should be stopped.

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