A garment's environmental footprint is decided long before it reaches a shop rail — mostly by three choices: which fiber it's spun from, how it's dyed, and how far it travels to reach a warehouse. This lab strings those stages into a single 3D production pipeline — fiber source, spinning, dye vat, and a shipping route to a garment rack — with a live bar chart totalling water, energy and carbon footprint per garment as you change the inputs.
A single conventional cotton T-shirt can carry a water footprint approaching a bathtub's worth of water once irrigation is counted, while switching that same shirt's shipping from sea to air freight can multiply its transport carbon footprint many times over — often more than the fiber choice itself.
A live 3D garment production pipeline — fiber source, spinning, dye vat and a shipping route to a garment rack — sits beside a bar chart totalling water, energy and carbon footprint per garment, so fiber choice, dyeing and freight decisions become numbers you can compare directly.
Each fiber carries a different baseline water/energy/carbon intensity per kilogram; dyeing intensity adds water and energy directly; and shipping mode changes the carbon cost per kilometre by more than an order of magnitude between sea and air freight.
Switch fiber blend to see the source and bar chart change instantly, push dyeing intensity up to watch the vat darken and steam thicken, then compare sea versus air freight at the same distance to see which bar moves the most.
A conventional cotton T-shirt's water footprint can approach the volume of a full bathtub once irrigation is counted — while the same garment's transport footprint can multiply many times over just by switching from sea to air freight.