Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain

Presents a complete picture of the clothing supply chain's effect on our environment, including carbon footprints, ecological footprints and life cycle assessment

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu (Author)

9780128197837

Paperback, published 27 March 2020

204 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.15 kg

Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain, Second Edition, is a fully updated, practical guide on how to identify and respond to environmental challenges across the supply chain. This new edition features updates to important data on environmental impacts and their measurements, the sustainable use of water and electricity, and new legislation, standards and schemes. Chapters provide an introduction to the textile supply chain and an overview of the methods used to measure environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy footprints, and a lifecycle assessment (LCA) on environmental impacts.

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

Subject Areas: Other vocational technologies & trades [TTV], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Energy technology & engineering [TH], Textile & fibre technology [TDH], Distribution & warehousing management [KJMV9]