This third volume in the set of books is dedicated to various sustainable approaches in textiles and fashion sector with a focus on fibres and raw materials employed. Sustainability is one of the important aspects in today’s industrial context, which is followed by every industrial sector with no exception to textiles and fashion. Sustainability and strict adherence to the principles of sustainability has become as one of the essential needs again for any industrial sector including textiles and fashion. There are countless measures in terms of various approaches to make the textiles and fashion sector sustainable. These measures, but not limited to, ranging from innovating and implementing new fibres and raw materials, introducing innovative manufacturing methods, chemicals, processes to focus on all the possible stages of a textile product’s life cycle from cradle to grave. These approaches include making the textiles and fashion sector circular and also development of new products from sustainable raw materials/processes or combination of both.
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Importance of Asclepias Syriaca (Milkweed) Fibers in Sustainable Fashion and Textile Industry and Its Potential End-Uses.- Organic Cotton: Fibre To Fashion.- Product Development Using Corn Husk Fibres- A Sustainable Initiative.- Design and Development of under arm Sweat pad.- Production of Sustainable Banana Fibers from Agricultural Wastes and Their Properties.- Evaluating the potential of pineapple leaf fiber fabrics and its blends for sustainable home textile applications.- Development of Union Fabrics from Lotus Petiole Waste.- Popularisation of Agrowaste Fibres- Banana and Areca Nut Fibre – A Sustainable Approach.- Sustainable Agrotextile: Jute Needle-punched Nonwoven Preparation, Properties and Use in Indian Perspective.- Extracellular Polymeric Substances in Textile Industry.- Development of Sustainable Sound and Thermal Insulation Products from Unconventional Natural Fibres for Automobile Applications.Circa l’autore
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for Sg T Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph D 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.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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