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Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain
- 2nd Edition - March 20, 2020
- Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 8 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 8 4 - 4
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 environme… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAssessing 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.
This book will be a standard reference for R&D managers in the textile industry and academic researchers in textile science.
- Provides a holistic view of the sustainability issues that affect the textile value chain
- Explains ways to calculate the textile industry’s use of resources, its impact on global warming, and the pollution and waste it generates
- Reviews key methods for the reduction of the environmental impact of textile products and how they are implemented in practice
- Includes methods for calculating product carbon footprints (PCFs), ecological footprints (EFs) and lifecycle assessments (LCA)
Sustainability managers and life cycle assessment professionals in the textiles and fashion sector
- No. of pages: 204
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 20, 2020
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128197837
- eBook ISBN: 9780128197844
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Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
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.
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Director and Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Hong KongRead Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain on ScienceDirect