Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI, cilt.29, sa.6, ss.628-635, 2023 (ESCI)
Apparel companies that corner the market, in line with their sustainability strategies, are looking for options that will cause the least harm to the environment, and life cycle analysis (LCA) approach is widely used for this purpose. The aim of this study is to determine the environmental effects of a hoodie with the LCA and to evaluate different alternatives for more sustainable production of this product. LCA studies were carried out with data obtained from the field of a factory that performs garment operations. The functional unit is a ready-to -shipping hoodie, and first of all, the current environmental impacts of this product were determined with a cradle-to-gate approach. Then, the boundary of the gate-to-gate was used to determine the improvements that could be made only in the garment stage. Within the scope of the study, four scenarios were generated and the environmental effects of each scenario were compared with the current situation. Life cycle analyzes were performed with GaBi 6.0 LCA software. The selected impact category method is CML-2001. As a result of the evaluations, the best results were obtained with Scenario 5, which represents the use of biodiesel as a fuel type in transportation together with the use of renewable energy sources in all applications. With this scenario, reductions of 74.40%, 84.32% and 60.91% were determined in the effect categories of global warming, acidification and abiotic depletion, respectively, according to the current situation (Scenario 1).