Environmental and climate pressures from textile production and consumption in the EU remain high. Of the 12 categories of consumption by European households – such as food, mobility, housing, health and education – textile consumption on average fifth largest in terms of environmental and climate pressures The EEA measured these impacts across metrics of raw material use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and water and land use.

Textile production and consumption also contributes to other environmental pressures, including air pollution, chemical use and contamination, microplastic pollution from the production, use and washing of textiles, as well as pressures from the handling of textiles that end up as waste.  (More on eea.europa.eu)