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Waste Management in the Fashion and Textile Industries
- 1st Edition - January 7, 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
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Request a sales quoteWaste 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.
- 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.
- No. of pages: 358
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 7, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128187586
- eBook ISBN: 9780128187593
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Communication and Design, RMIT University, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamAP
Asis Patnaik
Dr. Asis Patnaik is working as acting Head of Clothing and Textile Technology Department in Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville Campus, Cape Town, South Africa. He is actively involved in the teaching, research and development of textiles and technical textile-based materials suitable for manufacturing, automotive, medical, building and footwear industries. He has published more than 80 papers, books, book chapters and conference papers. He has also developed two technologies for filtration, building and automotive industries. He is a regular reviewer of engineering book proposals from the leading publishers, research funding proposal reviewer from various funding agencies, as well as examiner of PhD theses. He was the recipient of several international awards including Textile Institutes Outstanding Young Scientist Paper Award in 2008 and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual award by the CSIR, South Africa in 2013. He is a NRF (National Research Foundation) rated established researcher in South Africa. He is a voting member of the ASTM standardisation committee on Textiles (D13). He has supervised several PhD and Masters students and hosting two-post doctoral research fellows. Majority of his research works are funded by the industries and he has a track record of securing large industry funding for various projects.
Affiliations and expertise
HoD: Department of Clothing and Textile Technology (Acting), Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Cape Peninsula University of Technology