Overview
- Highlights sustainable approaches in terms of fibre and raw materials pertaining to the fashion industry
- Discusses fiber production from agricultural wastes such as sustainable banana fibers
- Includes interesting aspects of innovative materials used in textiles and fashion sector
Part of the book series: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry (STPPMC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Approaches in Textiles and Fashion
Book Subtitle: Fibres, Raw Materials and Product Development
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0878-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0877-4Published: 12 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0880-4Published: 13 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0878-1Published: 11 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-7108
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7116
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 94 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Structural Materials, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, general, Agriculture