Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Description

This process represents .8 kg of a 70% polyester/30% nylon blend. The additional 20% of the synthetic leather material is found in the coating phase. For nylon, data are from the Eco-profiles of the European plastics industry (PlasticsEurope). Technology represents production out of hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid. For polyester, data are based on the average unit process from the Eco-profiles of the European plastics industry. Average data for the production of amorphous PET out of ethylene glycol and PTA.

Impacts

	Impact area	MSI Score
	Global Warming	4.1
	Eutrophication	2.5
	Water Scarcity	0.7
	Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels	5.4
	Chemistry	Scored per material rather than production stage. Click on "Return to Material", and learn about Chemistry scoring under "Chemistry Certifications".

Modeling Notes

Nylon 6-6 {GLO}| market for | Alloc Def, S and Polyethylene terephthalate, granulate, amorphous {GLO}| market for | Alloc Def, S. Includes 10% loss of raw material to account for yield losses. Also includes 1000km inbound shipping distance to account for shipment of raw materials.

Meta information

Primary Source: ecoinvent 3.3
Last Publication or Review date: 2011
Geography: Global/generic
Data Generator: Cashion East, Pivot Analytics; east@pointpivot.com

Applicable Materials

Material	Impact benchmarkimpactblend components
Polyurethane (PU) synthetic leather	43 Synthetic Leather

Data quality

Data Quality	Value	Description
Precision	Good	10% to 20%	2
Time Representativeness	Good	Data are not older than 6 years with respect to the release date or latest review date	2
Geographical Representativeness	Good	The processes included in the dataset are well representative for the geography stated in the title and metadata	2
Technological Representativeness	Good	The technologies modeled are included in the mix of technologies covered by the dataset	2
Average			2

Synthetic leather substrate, 70% Polyester/30% nylon blend