WATER FOOTPRINT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF CHINA

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI:10.30638/EEMJ.2021.024

Fangli Chen, Yuelei Shen, Si-Yuan Liu, Yiduo Yang, Laili Wang

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Abstract

The textile industry is one of the most water intensive and polluting industries. China is the world s largest producer of textile products. For the sustainable development of China s textile industry, the environmental impacts caused by its water consumption and wastewater discharge must be identified. In this paper, we analysed the water footprint of China s textile industry based on the water footprint framework proposed in the ISO 14046. The results showed that both water scarcity footprint and water eutrophication footprint increased from 1996 to 2015, despite the fluctuation periods. Water ecotoxicity footprint decreased during the selected researched years. Among the three sub-sectors of China s textile industry, the water footprints of the manufacture of textiles sector were larger than those of manufacture of textile wearing apparel, foot-ware, and caps sector and manufacture of chemical fibres sector. The water footprint intensity of China s textile industry has decreased through the efforts of government administrative control measures and producers actions on freshwater saving and wastewater treatment.

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纺织工业的水足迹:以中国为例

纺织业是用水最密集、污染最严重的行业之一。中国是世界上最大的纺织品生产国。为了实现中国纺织工业的可持续发展，必须明确纺织工业用水和废水排放对环境的影响。本文基于ISO 14046中提出的水足迹框架，对中国纺织行业的水足迹进行了分析。结果表明:1996 - 2015年水资源短缺足迹和水富营养化足迹均呈上升趋势，但存在波动期;水生态毒性足迹在研究年限内呈下降趋势。在中国纺织业的三个子行业中，纺织行业的水足迹大于纺织服装、鞋帽和化纤制造行业。中国纺织工业的水足迹强度通过政府的行政控制措施和生产者节约淡水和废水处理的行动有所降低。

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Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

36.40%

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审稿时长

8.6 months

期刊介绍： Environmental Engineering and Management Journal is an international journal that publishes reviewed original research papers of both experimental and theoretical nature in the following areas: environmental impact assessment; environmental integrated management; risk assessment and management; environmental chemistry; environmental protection technologies (water, air, soil); pollution reduction at source and waste minimization; chemical and biological process engineering; cleaner production, products and services; sensors in environment control; sources of radiation and protection technologies; waste valorization technologies and management; environmental biotechnology; energy and environment; modelling, simulation and optimization for environmental protection; technologies for drinking and industrial water; life cycle assessments of products; environmental strategies and policies; cost-profitt analysis in environmental protection; eco-industry and environmental market; environmental education and sustainable development. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal will publish: original communications describing important new discoveries or further developments in the above-mentioned topics; reviews, mainly of new rapidly developing areas of environmental protection; special themed issues on relevant topics; advertising.