Progress on Life Cycle Assessment in Textiles and Clothing

by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu (Editor)

Overview

Textiles and Clothing are key sectors and apparel is one of the necessities of human life. Environmental brunt of the textile sector and cradle to grave life cycle impacts of textiles and clothing products are a subject of constant investigation. There have been a lot of advancements in the textile sector in terms of materials such as textile fibres, yarns, fabrics, garments and also in terms of processes. All these innovations demand an environmental profile as well. Life Cycle Assessment is one of the widely used and popular scientific tools which has been utilized to measure the environmental footprints of various products and processes. This volume presents recent advances on LCA in the textiles and clothing sector.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811996337
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	03/02/2023
Series:	Textile Science and Clothing Technology
Edition description:	2023
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Table of Contents

Recent Progress on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Textile Industry: Applications for Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of Cotton and Its Derivatives.- A framework for life cycle inventory modelling of chemical substances in the footwear and apparel industry.- Life Cycle Assessment of the Renting of Leisurewear.- The environmental impact of textiles and clothing: a regional and a country approach.- Performing life cycle assessment at scale in the footwear industry.- Life cycle assessment of textile fibers in Brazil: a literature review.- The role of country specific gate to gate ecolabels: Case study for Sri Lankan clothing industry.- The role of Life Cycle Assessment in analyzing Circular Economy strategies in the clothing sector: a review.- LCA Studies on Regenerative Agriculture and Regenerative Textiles: Two Routes of Regenerative Cotton.