Abstract:
In global context, the apparel industry is accountable for about 10% of the CF of
world and remains the second largest industrial polluter, second only to oil. Garments
units emit GHGs through different ways such as electricity use, fossil fuel burning,
transport fuels, chemical use, and waste etc. Therefore, the apparel industry is
relatively working under pressure to achieve sustainability and reduce its Carbon
Footprint. Today, Sri Lankan apparel organization is moving towards environmental
sustainability to reduce their environmental impacts. Reducing organizational Carbon
Footprint is significant role. Hence, researcher selected ABC Apparel organization
which is the branch of leading apparel manufacturer in Sri Lanka. Sustainability is the
unfamiliar concept of ABC’s group. But ABC apparel manufacturing organization has
not yet calculated their Carbon Footprint which is the baseline situation towards
sustainability. As per the group mission calculating carbon footprint has become an
immediate requirement for this organization. Mainly they use fossil fuel bases grid
energy which has significant impact on emit GHG gases. There is a significant
consumption of electricity in this organization. Moreover, approximately 15% of
garment in this organization have been identified as sewing garment defects (reworks)
in 2019. It has to incur additional cost related to electricity, machine maintenance, raw
material because of reworking the defective garments which ultimately cause to
increase organizational carbon footprint. In this study, the researcher, firstly
calculated the carbon footprint of the ABC Apparel manufacturing organization with
the methodology guided by the GHG protocol and ISO 14064 standard. Based on the
carbon footprint results researcher tested impact of sewing garment reworks on
carbon footprint using the regression analysis. As per the results, the GHG emissions
due to electricity consumption is the largest contributor to the total carbon footprint of
the ABC Apparel manufacturing organization. Moreover, if it is incresed one
defective sewing garment ,GHG emissions in electricity will incresed by 0.1023 of
CO2e.This despites garments reworking does some what small impact on
organizational carbon footprint. Hence, future researcher will able to do a study by
considering other factors which cause to increase emission from electricity
consumption other than the garment reworking.Furthermore recommendations was
discussed in order to reduce organizatonal carbon footprint
