Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain (Second Edition)
- 4h 17m
- Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2020
The textile industry impacts the environment in a number of ways, including its use of resources, its impact on global warming, and the amount of pollution and waste it generates. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain reviews methods used to calculate this environmental impact, including product carbon footprints (PCFs), ecological footprints (EFs), and life cycle assessment (LCA).
The first chapters provide an introduction to the textile supply chain and its environmental impact, and an overview of the methods used to measure this impact. The book goes on to consider different environmental impacts of the industry, including greenhouse gas emissions, the water and energy footprints of the industry, and depletion of resources, as well as the use of LCA to assess the overall environmental impact of the textile industry. It then deals with the practice of measuring these impacts before forming a conclusion about the environmental impact of the industry.
Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain provides a standard reference for R&D managers in the textile industry and academic researchers in textile science.
In this Book
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Introduction to Sustainability and the Textile Supply Chain and its Environmental Impact
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Ways of Measuring the Environmental Impact of Textile Processing—An Overview
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Textile Processing and Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Methods for Calculating the Product Carbon Footprint of Textile Products
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Calculating the Water and Energy Footprints of Textile Products
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Textile Processing and Resource Depletion—Calculating the Ecological Footprint of Textile Products
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Estimating the Overall Environmental Impact of Textile Processing—Life Cycle Assessment of Textile Products
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Life Cycle Assessment and Product Carbon Footprint Modelling of Textile Products
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End-of-Life Management of Textile Products
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Measuring the Environmental Impact of Textiles in Practice—Calculating the Product Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment of Particular Textile Products
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Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles—Summary and Conclusions
