Waste Management in the Fashion and Textile Industries

Explores the latest technologies and best practices for the management and treatment of waste generated in the textile industry

Rajkishore Nayak (Edited by), Asis Patnaik (Edited by)

9780128187586, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 12 January 2021

358 pages, 110 illustrations (30 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.58 kg

Waste Management in the Textiles Industry explores and explains the latest technologies and best practices for an integrated approach to the management and treatment of wastes generated in this industry.

1. Introduction to Fashion and Textile Waste
2. Problems and Hazards of Textile and Fashion Waste
3. Management of Spinning and Weaving Waste
4. Management of Wastes in Garment Manufacturing
5. Technologies for the Management of Waste Water Generated in Wet Processing
6. Management of Air Quality
7. Management of E-waste
8. Packaging Waste and Its Management Technologies
9. End of Life Clothes and their Management
10. Organisations and Standards Relating to Waste Management
11. Automotive Waste Management Technologies
12. Management of Coated and Laminated Textile Wastes
13. Management of Protective Clothing Waste
14. Management of other Fashion Wastes
15. Recycling of Plastics, Composite Materials
16. Bioplastics and Bio Composites and their Recycling and Degradation Technologies

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]