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Novel Sustainable Process Alternatives for the Textiles and Fashion Industry

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Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Chief Sustainability Officer, Green Story Inc., Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Presents several cases on sustainable dyeing in the textile industry
  • Discusses 3D printing in the context of textile sustainability
  • Offers a variety of cases on sustainable textile processes

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. 3D Printing, a Road to Sustainable Fashion

    • Ava Armstrong, S. M. Fijul Kabir, Kavita Mathur, Abdel-Fattah M. Seyam
    Pages 1-27

  3. A Critical Analysis of the Characteristics of Raw and Treated Effluents Generated from Natural/Ayurvedic Dyeing Unit

    • Chandrasekaran Karuppuswamy, Kandhavadivu Palanisamy
    Pages 29-45

  4. Reality and Challenges in Sustainable Textiles

    • S. Grace Annapoorani
    Pages 47-72

  5. Scope of Natural Dyes and Biomordants in Textile Industry for Cleaner Production

    • Bhavana Balachandran, P. C. Sabumon
    Pages 73-106

  6. Sustainable Technologies and Materials for Future Fashion

    • R. Rathinamoorthy, L. Suvitha, S. Raja Balasaraswathi
    Pages 107-138

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 139-139
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About this book

Environmental impacts created by the textiles and fashion sector are well known and acknowledged by various stakeholders involved in the entire supply chain. The lifecycle of textile products creates various impacts to the environment and any attempts to alleviate them are highly welcomed. The whole sector is keen to investigate novel sustainable alternatives in terms of raw materials, processes, approaches to make the entire textiles and fashion sector more sustainable. This broad category of novel sustainable alternatives can be split into three subtopics: novel raw material alternatives, novel process alternative and novel alternative approaches. This volume provides cases describing novel sustainable process alternatives for the textiles and fashion industry.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chief Sustainability Officer, Green Story Inc., Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editor

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, 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 150 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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