Opis: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain - Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Subramaniam Senthilkann Muthu

The textile industry impacts the environment in a number of ways, including its use of resources, its impact on global warming, and the amount of pollution and waste it generates. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain reviews methods used to calculate this environmental impact, including product carbon footprints (PCFs), ecological footprints (EFs), and life cycle assessment (LCA). The first chapters provide an introduction to the textile supply chain and its environmental impact, and an overview of the methods used to measure this impact. The book goes on to consider different environmental impacts of the industry, including greenhouse gas emissions, the water and energy footprints of the industry, and depletion of resources, as well as the use of LCA to assess the overall environmental impact of the textile industry. It then deals with the practice of measuring these impacts before forming a conclusion about the environmental impact of the industry. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain provides a standard reference for R&D managers in the textile industry and academic researchers in textile science. * Reviews the main methods used to calculate the textile industry's use of resources, its impact on global warming and the pollution and waste it generates* Reviews the key methods, their principles and how they can be applied in practice to measure and reduce the environmental impact of textile products* Includes the following calculation methods: product carbon footprints (PCFs), ecological footprints (EFs) and life cycle assessment (LCA)The textile supply chain and its environmental impact; Ways of measuring the environmental impact of textile processing: An overview; Textile processing and greenhouse gas emissions: Methods for calculating the product carbon footprint (PCF) of textile products; Calculating the water and energy footprints of textile products; Textile processing and resource depletion: Calculating the ecological footprint of textile products; Estimating the overall environmental impact of textile processing: Life cycle assessment (LCA) of textile products; Life cycle assessment (LCA) and product carbon footprint (PCF) modelling of textile products; End-of-life management of textile products; Measuring the environmental impact of textiles in practice: Calculating the product carbon footprint (PCF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) of particular textile products; Assessing the environmental impact of textiles: Summary and conclusions.

Szczegóły: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain - Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Subramaniam Senthilkann Muthu

Tytuł: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain
Autor: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Subramaniam Senthilkann Muthu
Producent: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781782421047
Rok produkcji: 2014
Ilość stron: 212
Oprawa: Twarda

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