Environmental assessment of cotton textile production in Peru: A case study for a cotton T-shirt.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the environmental impacts of textiles produced in Peru using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. For this, a T-shirt made from cotton is chosen, where the cotton production and the manufacturing take place in Peru, while the use and end-of-life phase is located in the US as the main market. Five impact categories were assessed using the Sphera software, the Ecoinvent database, primary data obtained from each participating company, and relevant information from the literature.