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Microplastic emission and socioeconomic data of fashion industry in Chinese cities from 2001 to 2020
Summary
This dataset tracks microplastic emissions from China's fashion industry — including textile, garment, and footwear manufacturing — across cities from 2001 to 2020, enabling analysis of trends alongside socioeconomic data.
Microplastic pollution is one of the emerging global environmental issues. The fashion industry is a major source of microplastic pollution due to the massive consumption of synthetic fibres. Textile, garment, and footwear manufacturing contribute to the microplastic emission into sewage waters. Cities are major contributors to microplastic emissions and the implementers of microplastic control. It is important to compile the inventories of microplastic emissions of the fashion industry for cities, and fewer studies have investigated the inventories of microplastic emissions for key industries in cities. This study, for the first time, compiles microplastic emission inventories of the fashion industry for Chinese cities. The inventories are constructed using 21 cities and 4 production processes of the fashion industry. The socioeconomic data of the fashion industry in cities such as the output of industrial products and the gross output value of the fashion industry are included in the datasets as well. The dataset can provide transparent, comparable, and verifiable data support for the microplastic pollution prevention and control strategies in the fashion industry, and provide references for the construction of microplastic emission inventories for other key industries.
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