MGT$124$: Production and Operations Management

Prof. Lisa Spencer

Read and Respond Case #$2$: The Garment Industry $(20$ points$)$

Please write with complete sentences unless you are answering a "fill in the blank."

Due: Wednesday, April $17$ at $10am$ either in class or in my email. Late assignments are not accepted.

$1.$The "triple bottom line" of sustainability consists of profits, people, and planet. Using Article #$1,$ identify and explain one sustainability example from each of the following sections of the reading and state whether it pertains to "people" or "planet."

Recycled Polyester: Planet

Girlfriend colloctives innovative legaings are made from $25$ RPET recycled Plastic water boltles combined w$121\%$ spandex. This source comes from Taino

where they recyele about $55\%$ of thoir whote whereas The US$,35\%$

Recycled Fabric:

Making Fabric:

Recycled Nylon:

Cutting and Sewing: People

How might these examples of protecting people and the planet help or hinder attaining the objective of "profits?"

Help:

Hinder:

How do "sustainability" efforts to recycle$/$resell clothing in the Kantamanto market actually have the pposite effect on

"people"?

"planet"?: