Textile and apparel industries waste and its sustainable management approaches

Abstract

The idea of sustainability through spreading Awareness in reduce, reuse, and recycle are important techniques for waste management and become a vital factor for improving the economic and environmental condition of textile industries. Because of a remarkable expansion in population, generally improvement of expectation for everyday comforts and the worldwide manufacturing of various textile Textiles items are being expanded in the previous few decades, which prompts a significant degree of utilization and waste generation. The major wastes such as wastewater and fiber waste disposed by in an unplanned manner, which causes many environmental problems, since the textile and clothing industry is one of the most polluting industry. Consequently, the proper management practices of waste generation is becoming important worldwide. This study focuses on identifying the current production, waste generation, source of waste and its characteristics, utilization and environmental concerns. This paper also addresses the possible framework for the textile waste management practices to value added products in textile and apparel industry and future needs for further development are also discussed.