Group 8 - INS2019 01
Group 8 - INS2019 01
Group 8 - INS2019 01
INS2019 01
Lecturer: Ms.Bùi Mỹ
Trinh
Group 8
Number of words:
4395
Member:
Trần Diệu Linh
Phan Hải Yến
Nguyễn
Phương Anh
Khúc Cẩm Chi
Trịnh Thị Lan
Chu Thủy Tiên
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
Business Organization and Management
Executive summary:
Nowadays, with advanced technology and innovation, the textile industry meet the needs of
various customers. The textile industry is one of the biggest current branches of world trade.
It is an important channel for the transfer of technology and finances to developing countries.
Simultaneously, it is also one of the most polluting industries with complex technologies and
the development process from the raw material to the final product.
Broadly speaking, there are four ways that this can happen:
Health decline :along with the popularity of textile industry, the reliance on many kinds of
New tech : There are large numbers of factories that manufacturing garment products in the
world. Each country has its own way of dealing with environmental problems like large
amounts of wastes produced by textile waste, solvent residuals and finishing processes ect. By
developing and applying new technologies including environmental friendly dyes, eco-
protection water treatment systems can reduce the negative impact on environment.
Fast fashion’s tricks : The prevalence of fast fashion can be seen in life - on social networks
and in each person's wardrobe. The fast fashion market is influential and helps the fashion
industry thrive. However, proportional to that development are the adverse effects on the
environment.
Price? : Do people really care about the environmental protection standards of clothing
brands? Or only care about price, design and do not care about the origin, environmental
issues that the clothes they buy can have a negative impact on the environment.
I. Introduction
This report consists of 3 main parts: Introduction, Main body heading includes 9 steps,
and finally the conclusion. In which, the Main body heading from step 1 to step 4 presents the
general questions to be answered throughout the report, context, external driver, ranking and
ranging. Steps 5 to 9 will name, categorize, and make predictions for the four scenarios in the
This report is limited in scope to studying the scenarios that textile companies in China
distinguish future vulnerabilities and look at adjustment alternatives (Flynn, Ford et al. 2018).
The theory encourages scholars to adopt theory that is not necessarily tethered to a common
core, which does not contribute to a shared, foundational theoretical perspective in futures
studies (Spaniol and Rowland 2018). Furthermore, Scenario planning, as one of the foremost
valuable foreknowledge consider strategies, gives elective arrangements for policymakers and
competitive advantage. of the business (Schwarz, Ram et al. 2019). By making planning
scenarios, businesses can optimally allocate resources and see possible trends in the future.
1.3 Trend description
Nowadays, more and more companies are neglecting the pursuit of environmental
goals so that they have more opportunities to profit from their industrial activities, they can
also cut down on pretreatment of pollutants. For example, the fashion industry is one of the
major polluters in the world as the production and addition of crops, fibers and clothing used
in a fashion company all contribute to environmental pollution, which includes different cells
such as water, air, and soil cells. In fact, the textile industry is the second largest polluter of
fresh water in the world. Some of the small known contributing factors in the polluting
industry are the overproduction of these items, the use of synthetic fibers and the agricultural
pollution of the crops used in the fashion sector. In addition, more and more customers pursue
products made from natural materials, realizing this trend, garment companies quickly use
an important goal of the garment industry. However, in recent years, this industry is receiving
a lot of criticism from environmentalists for not being active in the issue of building a
sustainable environment and society. In fact, the garment industry generates 10% of global
CO2 emissions each year, the volume of wastewater from the fabric dyeing process accounts
while pursuing long-term economic development goals (Islam, Hunt et al. 2020). Therefore,
the objective of this study is to present four scenarios of challenges when garment companies
pursue their environmental goals and provide solutions to address those challenges by
answering the question: " What will happen to the environment when the textile industry
only produces for profit and does not care about building sustainable environment in
China? “
2. Contextualisation
technologies to filter billions of tons of wastewater discharged every day during the
dyeing process, garment startups start with the production of environmentally friendly
silk fibers but still achieve the same durable quality as synthetic silk, not all
manufacturers apply these technologies to their processes for many reasons such as
time consuming More time for waste treatment as well as money to hire senior
cost required for a garment enterprise to pursue environmental goals is quite high.
Specifically, the operating cost to treat reused water is $0.44/m3, while a fabric
manufacturing company in Long Thanh industrial zone, Vietnam discharges about 794
m3 into the environment a day. The fee per month for wastewater treatment only is
1. External drivers
China needs to have necessary policies for the textile industry related to
the environment.
industry
POLITICAL industry chain, can involve many areas, such as raw materials
and dyeing skills, and those fields all have an impact on the
relevant laws and regulations are made more strictly, and the
ECONOMIC support the expansion. However, the development of the textile industry
statistics in China, there are about 2.5 billion tons of wastewater every
year from the textile industry, which causes many difficulties for waste
Aware of this serious situation, the Chinese government and people are
SOCIAL waste. More and more textile and garment enterprises are more
waste from textile dyeing processes, ushering in a new era for radiation
Shanghai, will treat about a sixth of the facility's entire capacity of 1500
cubic meters of wastewater each day. China is the world's first country
and revising the environmental protection code with the initial goal of
and 2018 saw changes to the law that began to specifically target certain
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Driver Relevancy Immediacy
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Technological High
In order to stay clean, both
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waste treatment technologies
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must be continually improved.
the solutions.
Best Case
New Tech
What will happen to the environment when the textile industry only produces for profit and
Name
Dying, weave, spin, finish, and print, as well as other critical techniques for
changing fiber into garments or finished fabric form, are all handled by
adopt an abnormal and awkward position of the body, which can result in a
Health decline case scenario. Textile workers are exposed to a number of health concerns,
including the ones listed below (Meena, Dangayach & Bhardwaj, 2014).
process, some of which can cause serious health problems. Brown Lung is a
Noise pollution has been found to cause hearing loss and damage to the
noise pollution.
The competition of apparel companies also leads to many positive aspects for
the environment. In which, the first activity is the garment industry applying
new technologies to treat and recycle wastewater. The second is that companies
New tech in the textile industry especially startups they start with new environmentally
friendly materials and fibers. However, most waste improvement methods and
companies with low capital are not really excited about the above measures
In recent years, fast fashion, often known as "fast fashion," "mass fashion," or
"throwaway fashion," has grown rapidly. Rapid fashion may be seen as an
attempt to bridge the gap between client demands and garment corporations
Fast fashion’s throughout the globalization of fast fashion. Fast fashion has become extremely
tricks popular in Asia, notably in China and Korea. It's a cutting-edge retail concept
that offers high-quality, low-cost clothes that is updated often. The fast fashion
meet client demand, resulting in increasing water and air pollution. Fast fashion
with trends.
Price? themselves through their clothing choices. Since this practice has persisted in
clothing industry of today has moved well beyond merely satisfying basic
physiological and psychological needs, and the rise of fast fashion, especially,
fast fashion has drastically shortened the clothing life cycle, with new styles
swiftly superseding the old, leading to one's remove cloths as soon as they can
Plans for "Fast fashion's tricks" and "Price?" There are many things in common
because these two scenarios are both influenced by fast fashion trends that lead to buying too
many trending clothes, sometimes not caring about the price, but unintentionally harming the
environment by quantity. The clothes they bought when the trend ends will be released into
the environment again and again in a cycle. The government's mission and solution is to
propagate about the negative aspects of the fast fashion industry on the environment,
Health declines
Pollutants that create hydroxides include dyes that directly risk people's health, as well
as compounds that promote water deterioration and aid in the processing of dangerous algal
health, and textile production alone produces 1,712 million tons of carbon dioxide each year,
jeopardizing the health of fast fashion communities as well as worldwide attempts to reduce
It's crucial to remember that many harmful compounds can be obtained through a
person's skin, as well as through ingestion or inhalation. For certain persons, the materials for
use in textile production may well be the primary source of allergies. In rare instances, it can
induce cancer and mutagenesis. As a result, it's critical to address the textile industry's
Having a pre-existing ailment induced by textile production, like the base case and
rogue scenario, makes the morbidity and mortality danger from environmental degradation a
worldwide concern that must be ethically addressed. Furthermore, low-income people are
themselves from noise pollution, workers should use earplugs (Rouch 2021). Workers should
use masks to protect themselves from the smell pollution and smog. To safeguard their vision,
Currently, China is known as the world's factory due to its openness to technology
transfer and the location of production plants of multinational corporations (Hu, Wang et al.
2018). Thanks to the environmental policies of the Chinese government, garment factories
located in the country compete in introducing new technologies that both reduce production
using electrocoagulation to remove color and heavy metals (Iron). Specifically, the water after
treatment can remove 86% of the color and the iron concentration is lower than 0.2 mgL−1,
which means that with this iron concentration, the treated water can be used for drinking,
however, to be safe, the water after treatment is safe. The treatment is reused for subsequent
dyeing processes (de Oliveira, da Silva Júnior et al. 2021). Membrane bioreactor (MBR) is a
combination of membrane separation technology and traditional activated sludge process also
applied to remove organic wastes in dyeing and printing processes. MBR is tested by more
than 30 textile companies and wastewater treatment plants in 5 southern coastal provinces of
The materials of the textile industry are mainly from natural sources (animals, plants),
man-made or synthetic by-products of the petroleum industry. All of the above materials
cause negative impacts on the environment during production and processing. One solution to
minimize the negative impact of these materials on the environment is to replace artificial
silks made from polymers and synthetic silks produced from petroleum products and
microplastics with the use of natural silk produced from jute and hemp fibers instead of
cotton, and recently olive leaf has also been introduced as a raw material for yarn production
Through the National Statistics, each year, the fashion industry produces 10 million
tons of waste materials. In accordance with the national natural resources census, the fast
fashion industry’s nature conservation body, each year in China, will release a lot of waste
textile resources than ten millions tons. The greatest achievement of fast fashion is to bring
some new perspectives in the fashion industry. The fast fashion brings vitality into the market
and supply the big share of changes on people’s lives. The fashion industry is the second most
polluting in the world after the oil industry. The environmental footprint of a manufactured
garment comprises a trail of multiple toxic processes from cotton planting (passing through
processing and dyeing) and transport to the points of sale and finally, disposal after use. ‘Fast
fashion’, premised on low cost and low durability, has widened this footprint by accelerating
Consumers expect more from their brands in times of crisis, as the COVID-19
the public's demand for brands to take responsibility, understand their own emissions and
abatement levers, collaborate with partners to decarbonize the value chain, and work with
stakeholders to construct a less emissions-intensive product lifetime. Now is the moment for
the industry to think outside the box and embrace business model reforms in order to achieve
long-term success.
Prices?
In some cases, when consumers buy cheap clothes which have unknown country
makes, these clothes might not be made of organic fibers and natural fibers that requiring
chemicals to be produced. Every time they wash as synthetic garments such as polyester,
nylon, about 700,000 individual microfibers are released into the water.
A lot of people tend to rush to buy fashion products on big sale days and quickly sell
them to customers during sales during the year, even though they may never wear them.. A
good illustration for this is China's Alibaba records Singles' Day GMV at $84.54 billion in 11-
day sales period. The price of this uncontrolled increase in consumption is waste, pollution,
and clothing factories with poor working conditions.Moreover, the production of leather; for
example, requires a large amount of feed, land, and water to raise livestock, while the tanning
process is among the most toxic in the fashion industry (Horwitz 2021).
Drivers that will have a profound impact on scenario one “Health decline” are
environmental, legal and social as The polluted working and living environment has directly
affected the health of workers as well as those around them. Businesses are becoming more
aware of the harmful effects and dangers of continuous exposure to a polluted environment.
In addition, scenario two New tech is driven by technological and economic . The
great development of technology has helped to find a lot of solutions to help textile and
garment enterprises to both produce sustainably and protect the environment. Using new
technology is also very expensive, especially for developing countries where economies are
The fashion industry is gradually turning to the trend of "slow fashion", companies pursuing
sustainable development, and their customers becoming aware of the problem. Previously,
under the influence of fast fashion trends, customers followed the trend, and garments were
Restriction
2. Our data collection method mainly takes data from secondary sources on the internet,
New machinery and technologies of the textile industry help the fashion
industry develop and improve the national economy by reducing production costs.
affected, not only workers in the textile industry but also consumers. For laborers,
exposure to cotton, fabrics, toxic dyes....does their health decline, causing many
dangerous diseases such as breathing due to inhalation of dust, poisoning, even Even
sources, affecting the quality of life. More dangerously, when fashion products use
poor quality dyes, are not guaranteed, the dyeing process has not been carefully
processed but sold to the market, consumers using the products will easily get the risk
The use of natural materials (animals, plants) such as silk, jute, etc. Instead of
artificial materials such as polymers, synthetic silk, etc. Helps to minimize the impact
ingredients with natural ones, but cannot completely replace them. Natural ingredients
are available, but also limited. In addition, fashion products made with handmade
materials are significantly more expensive than similar products made from synthetic
negative environmental impacts. The textile industry can completely limit the use of
In general, the above dyeing technologies both help reduce production costs
and are environmentally friendly. This can help China maintain its leading position in
the world garment industry. However for textile dyeing technology, dyeing chemicals
copying many models from famous brands with cheap prices and poor quality. Fast
fashion isn't bad, just as sustainable fashion isn't necessarily good. Buying better
doesn't mean you have to spend more. Prof Dilys Williams at London College of
Fashion said: 'Sustainable fashion is not expensive, it is more valuable than fast
Aside from the price point of view, there are several elements of sustainable
fashion to be proud of. All your clothes are made from 100% organic cotton or
recycled materials that will save the planet from the serious pollution it is today.
McKinsey has estimated that the fashion industry is responsible for 4% of the world's
on Climate Change, emissions from textile production are expected to soar to 60% by
9.4 Prices
lives, expect firms to bring out high-quality clothes with reasonable price so that more
people would be able to purchase products which meet both their demands and
environmental goals.
III. Conclusion
This report has been prepared with the objective of developing scenarios of enterprises
pursuing environmental goals by developing four scenarios that we believe are likely to occur
in the future. From there, the company can detect business opportunities to take advantage of
competitive advantages and anticipate some risks to have a reasonable plan to allocate human
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