The environmental approach to the design of mass consumption facilities as a way to reduce resource consumption

The current state and features of the functioning of light industry production facilities, as well as the features of the implementation of light industry goods, require the introduction of resource-saving, environmentally sound approaches to the design and production processes of products that allow the maintenance of consumer level of quality and reduction of the amount of waste. One of the promising concepts is the zero waste fashion concept, which aims to achieve zero waste design.

The article discusses tested directions of designing garments, taking into account the maximally possible minimisation of waste during cutting. The basis of these developments was the substantiation of calculations of elementary parts (modules), the organisation of the spatial form of products and the formation of the outline of the layout of parts in a rectangular frame in accordance with the geometric characteristics of materials.

Experimental data are presented, confirming the effectiveness of the implementation of these design directions in production. The environmental and resource aspects of applying an ecological approach at the design stage within the framework of the cyclical economy are discussed. It is concluded that introducing such developments into the production process at the enterprises of the garment industry is expedient.

In the context of an excess of waste in the form of used clothing items and inter-pattern and end-of-line residues at garment industry enterprises, as well as the growing environmental responsibility of manufacturers and consumers, the proposed developments allow increasing the degree of usage of materials, reducing the percentage of waste, and expanding conditions of operation of products, thereby extending service life. The described approach is economically justified and provides good consumer characteristics in the industrial production of samples.

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