Rental
The sustainability benefits of shifting to a rental market fashion was recently brought into question. Finnish researchers performed a life cycle assessment (LCA) of a pair of jeans under five ownership and end-of-life scenarios, concluding that the rental option had higher carbon emissions than simply throwing the jeans away. There are two major lessons I take from this. First, the climate impact of transportation and logistics is still significant and should be factored into any sustainable solutions. And second, LCAs are limited by their scope. In this case, other important sustainability impacts like water and biodiversity were not considered.
— Wayne Visser
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