Currently, not a few people in Indonesia are implementing a green lifestyle by sorting waste for recycling, including clothes. Clothing products that quickly change trends can actually lead to the problem of non-biodegradable waste. It should be noted that about 85 percent of all textiles disposed of in the United States, which is about 13 million tonnes in 2017, is either disposed of in landfills or incinerated. The average American is estimated to throw away about 37 kilograms of clothing each year.

And globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated every year or the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothes ending up in landfills every second. By 2030, it is expected that we will dispose of more than 134 million tonnes of textiles per year in total.

"The current fashion system uses a large amount of non-renewable resources, including petroleum, which is extracted to produce clothes that are often used for only a short time, after which most of the material is lost to landfills or incineration," said Chetna Prajapati, who studies how to make sustainable textiles at Loughborough University in England, , Friday, 27 May 2022.

"This system puts pressure on valuable resources like water, pollutes the environment and degrades ecosystems while creating social impacts on a global scale," he added.

There are good reasons to look for alternatives to throwing clothes in the trash. Globally the fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, with textile production alone estimated to release 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year.