Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain

ISBN-13: 9780128197837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

Spis treści

1. Introduction to sustainability and the textile supply chain and its environmental impact 2. Ways of measuring the environmental impact of textile processing: an overview 3. Textile processing and greenhouse gas emissions: Methods for calculating the product carbon footprint of textile products 4. Calculating the water and energy footprints of textile products 5. Textile processing and resource depletion: calculating the ecological footprint of textile products 6. Estimating the overall environmental impact of textile processing: life cycle assessment of textile products 7. Life cycle assessment and product carbon footprint modelling of textile products 8. End-of-life management of textile products 9. Measuring the environmental impact of textiles in practice: calculating the product carbon footprint and life cycle assessment of particular textile products 10. Assessing the environmental impact of textiles: summary and conclusions

O autorze

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is the Director & Head of Sustainability for SgT & API (Hong Kong), and a Director of the Textile and Bioengineering Informatics Society (TBIS), a charity created to develop and promote the bioengineering of materials, fibers and textiles. Well-known for his contributions in the field, his extensive academic and industrial experience has led to over 85 books and more than 100 research publications.