
Waste Management in the Fashion and Textile Industries
- 1st Edition - January 12, 2021
- Editors: Rajkishore Nayak, Asis Patnaik
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 7 5 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 7 5 9 - 3
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… Read more

- Provides a strong technological analysis of the manufacturing supply chain, including spinning, fabric production, finishing, garment manufacture, and the packaging of clothing
- Explains how textile technology perspectives feed into management decision-making about sustainability
- Addresses the industry’s impact on air and water quality and landfill waste
Textile engineers, environmental engineers, and chemical engineers with environmental management responsibilities in the textiles industry. Researchers interested in waste management or life cycle assessment.
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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Rajkishore Nayak
Rajkishore Nayak is an Associate Professor with the School of Communication & Design (SCD) at RMIT Vietnam. His research interests include new materialism, sustainability in fashion and textiles; circular fashion; waste management; and ethical fashion. Dr. Nayak has published 15 books and more than 150 high-impact journal papers. He is working in collaboration with universities in Africa, Europe, USA and Asia. Dr. Nayak is currently an Editorial member of various journals, including the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, and Fashion and Textiles. He is also an active member in SDC, ITA and AFC. He has extensive publications in high impact journals as well as books and book chapters.
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