We want to help reduce textile waste!
Why?
Because the fashion industry is the second-most polluting industry in the world! (Only behind oil)
We want to help consumers make more sustainable purchases.
It can be non-obvious what the right choice is. For example, cotton is biodegradable, but also requires a lot of water to produce!
Here is our initial data exploration of the water consumption for some materials:
Looking closer...
For more information, please take a look at our presentation: Presentation
Here are the sources we have used to inform our sustainability scores:
- Water Usage for Materials
- Water Consumption for Water
- Guide to Sustainability Levels of Fabrics
- How long will a fabric take to decompose?
- Value chain sustainability
- Higg Index
Files:
📁 data:
- sustainability_req.xlsx: Includes research conducted, data collected and calculations made for the sustainability score
- EDA.ipynb: Notebook used for initial data generation
- water_usage.png and water_usage_magnified.png: Plots
📁 init_idea: Initial idea we started with before pivoting to Sustainable Shopper
main.py: This is the main file with our code for the application
material_scoring.csv: Final sustainability scores used for the calculation