租衣服比买衣服更环保吗？专家：不一定_BEC初级作文

租衣服比买衣服更环保吗？专家：不一定

Take shipping, for example, which has to go two ways if an item is rented – receiving and returning. Cline writes that consumer transportation has the second largest footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.

以运输为例，租赁衣服需要运输两次——收到和返还各一次。克莱因写道，由于我们的集体时尚消费习惯，消费运输留下的碳足迹仅次于服装制造。

She writes, "An item ordered online and then returned can emit 20 kilograms of carbon each way, and spirals up to 50 kilograms for rush shipping. By comparison, the carbon impact of a pair of jeans purchased outright (presumably from a brick and mortar store) and washed and worn at home is 33.4 kilograms, according to a 2017 study commissioned by Levi’s."

她写道：“根据2017年李维斯委托开展的一项研究，在网上租赁一件衣服并归还，单程排放20千克碳足迹。运输急件排放的碳足迹可高达50千克。相比之下，一条在实体店直接买下的牛仔裤清洗后在家穿着所排放的碳足迹为33.4千克。”

Then there's the burden of washing, which has to happen for every item when it's returned, regardless of whether or not it was worn. For most rental services, this usually means dry-cleaning, a high-impact and polluting process. All the rental services that Cline looked into have replaced perchloroethylene, a carcinogenic air pollutant that's still used by 70 percent of US dry cleaners, with 'hydrocarbon alternatives', although these aren't great either.