Cloths and the environment

What you wear and how much you wear can affect the environment.

This might come to some people as a surprise, but from a strictly environmental point of view, the less cloths that one wears the better. For instance, shorts are better than a pair of full length trousers; they require less materials, less energy to transport, take less space to store, require less packaging to wrap, and require less water and detergent to wash.

Also, the choice of materials for clothing can have an effect on the environment. Some materials(probably synthetic) require more energy to produce. Furthermore, some materials and certain colors require lower temperatures to wash, which is a good thing.

One last thing that I wanted to mention about cloths is disposable of torn or stained cloths, do not throw them away in the garbage, instead "recycle them" by giving them away to poor people, they can make use of them, even if they are stained or have a small tear.