I bought this outfit at ZARA. This apparel company is from Spain. This outfit begins its life in Spain where they are designed. Once the design is finished, production will begin in the factory in India. According to a website article, Inditex, which is a company that runs ZARA, tends to have a factory near their country Spain so that they can prompt delivery of goods to each shop. After they complete production in their factory, all clothes are collected at the distribution center in Spain. Finally, those clothes are distributed to shops all over the world by ships, planes, and trucks(Gigazine, 2025). When I worked for ZARA, there were two weekly deliveries per week, and staff like me unpacked those clothes each morning. With all this procedure, customers finally can buy and get those clothes. This procedure only takes 6 weeks from design to unpacking at the store.
Polyester 95%
Polyamide 5%
However, those clothes are mostly made of polyester and a little bit of nylon. The clothes I threw away were made of 95% of polyester and 5% of polyamide. These are made of plastics and can cause problems such as microplastics with mass production. Mass production also forces them to use more transportation that emits harmful gases to the environment such as CO2. In response to these problems, ZARA has set a target of zero greenhouse emissions by 2040(Gigazine, 2025).
When I threw the clothes, I did not throw them away normally. Because if I threw it away normally, greenhouse gasses and micro-plastics could be emitted when waste is disposed of. Instead of this, I threw it away by using H&M recycling systems. I brought the clothes to H&M shops that collect used clothes to reuse the materials from used clothes. By using this system, I could also get discount coupon from H&M.