Semi-finished product · Textiles, leather and rubber
Denim fabric
One kilogram of cotton denim fabric
This page shows what the product is made of and where each figure comes from. It shows no death toll. The toll is computed from this bill of materials from session 19, and published only once it has an uncertainty interval and has passed a backtest.
Stretch denim as one Italian mill supplied it for one style of Nudie Jeans in 2017: 0.84 kg of organic cotton fibre and 0.016 kg of elastane spun and woven into 0.82 kg of fabric. One mill's figures for one fabric — which is why the grade is LOW. Dyeing chemicals and energy are not included.
- Overall grade — low
- Status — draft
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What it is made of
Each line is one component of one kilogram of cotton denim fabric: how much of it goes in, how much had to be produced for that, and where the figure comes from.
| Component | Quantity | Source |
|---|---|---|
|
Cotton yarn
ingredient |
980 g × 1.04 produced for it |
Åslund Hedman (2018), Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Jeans — a case study performed…
· medium
per kilogram of fabric: (0.82 − 0.016) / 0.82 kg is cotton, from 0.84 kg of fibre per 0.804 kg |
|
Elastane ingredient |
19.5 g | Åslund Hedman (2018), Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Jeans — a case study performed…
· medium
0.016 kg per 0.82 kg of fabric |
Down to raw materials
The whole chain multiplied out — everything one kilogram of cotton denim fabric needs, through every intermediate product, with every loss on the way included.
| Input | Per functional unit |
|---|---|
| Cotton | 3.10 kg |
| Elastane (not in the register) | 19.5 g |
An input marked “not in the register” is counted by mass and reaches no supply chain yet. Industries appear as the euros or tonne-kilometres the bill of materials gives them.
How much of it is explicit
100% of this product’s mass is explicit in its own bill of materials.
Its whole chain draws on 3.12 kg of materials, losses included. 99% of that is registered raw materials — the part the model can trace harm to — 1% is inputs not yet in the register, and 0% is a declared remainder.
In the input–output model it belongs to “Manufacture of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products” (FIGARO industry C13-15).
In the input–output model it belongs to “Manufacture of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products” (FIGARO industry C13T15).
What uses it
Products whose own bill of materials includes this one.
- Jeans — 710 g in one pair of stretch denim jeans of about 725 g, as Nudie Jeans made one style in 2017
The number this page does not show
The harm in this chain is not shown.
The model allocates the harm counted where each raw material is produced to the products that use it. That number is a count of people with a run behind it and no uncertainty interval yet, and nothing of that kind is published before the backtest of session 21. What this page can show without it is the structure: what the product is made of, and where each part of that knowledge comes from.