but there are ways to make this trillion—dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemil every year, making the industry a major contributor of greenhouse gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource — water. fashion is the second most polluting industry after aviation and shipping. it accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, and it's very water intensive. from manufacturing textiles for cotton t—shirts to washing or dry—cleaning clothes, the industry relies heavily on h20. but some people are trying to change that. here at acs, we also use water, we're large laundry. we believe that, in the next 12 months, we will get to a stage where we won't take any water from the mains. this fashion hub rents, resells repairs and sanitises pre—loved clothes from the high street or luxury brands. but how sustainable is it? even though we might be working with some of these fast—fashion brands, we're wanting them to help change their consumer mindset, so in being able to rent or get second—hand fashion, rather than this kind of model ofjust consuming constantly. so working wi

but there are ways to make this trillion—dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemie working with some of these fast—fashion brands, we're wanting them to help change their consumer mindset, so in being able to rent or get second—hand fashion, rather than this kind of model ofjust consuming co nsta ntly. 50, working with these brands, we're helping them to increase their sustainability credentials, but we're also stopping garments from ending up in landfill. the way in which we handle the clothes on site and how we are carbon neutral, how we have gone through a process to minimise our c02 emissions on ourjourney to net zero, on our reduction of water, we know that how we handle them here is a much more sustainable way than what we all do in our own homes. talking of water — the entire operation once used about 20,000 litres of the stuff every day. about 50% - that's 10,000 or 11,000 litres — that was used in laundry. but they've managed to halve this by using something scotland has plenty of. acs now harvests rainwater from the roof, then recycles it to use for clean