Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Description

Global average of hemp production based on production practices in Hungary and France. Traditional "warm" water-retting was modeled for hemp processing. Including cultivation, retting, scutching, and hackling.

Impacts

	Impact area	MSI Score
	Global Warming	4.7
	Eutrophication	89.6
	Water Scarcity	10.9
	Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels	3.2
	Chemistry	Scored per material rather than production stage. Click on "Return to Material", and learn about Chemistry scoring under "Chemistry Certifications".

Modeling Notes

World Apparel and Footwear Life Cycle Database . Includes 5% 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: Quantis. World Apparel and Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB), version 2.0, 2018.
Last Publication or Review date: 2018
Geography: China/Romania
Data Generator: Quantis

Applicable Materials

Material	Impact benchmarkimpactblend components
Hemp fiber fabric	160 Textiles

Data quality

Data Quality	Value	Description
Precision	Good	10% to 20%	2
Time Representativeness	Excellent	Data are not older than 4 years with respect to the release date or latest review date	1
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			1.75

Hemp fiber