Sustainability in Fashion and Apparels: Challenges and Solutions

✍ Scribed by M. Parthiban; M. R. Srikrishnan; P. Kandhavadivu

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing India Pvt Limited
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Series: Woodhead Publishing India in textiles
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the pathway to reach sustainability in fashion business and apparel sectors. It contains various research papers originally contributed by different authors from various organizations who are all working towards the eco-friendly manufacturing of apparel products, and provides approaches, techniques, alternative procedures/sustainable routes to develop sustainable apparel in a more environmentally friendly manner for the future.

The research papers discussed mainly focus on the various challenges put forth by the apparel industry with respect to environmentally friendly product manufacturing and also provides solutions to achieve the same through different principles and approaches which fulfil the production, user and disposal ecological considerations.

The book will be really useful for academicians, industry personnel and to textile and apparel students and scholars who wish to explore their knowledge and innovations in the field of sustainable apparel product manufacturing and processes.

This textbook addresses the pathway to reach sustainability in fashion business and apparel sectors. This book contains various research papers originally contributed by different authors from various organizations who are all working towards the eco-friendly manufacturing of apparel products. This textbook provides approaches, techniques, alternative procedures/sustainable routes to develop sustainable apparel in a more environmentally friendly manner for the future.

The research papers discussed in this book mainly focus on the various challenges put forth by the apparel industry with respect to environmentally friendly product manufacturing and also provides solutions to achieve the same through different principles and approaches which fulfil the production, user and disposal ecological considerations. The book will be really useful for academicians, industry personnel and to textile and apparel students and scholars who wish to explore their knowledge and innovations in the field of sustainable apparel product manufacturing and processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: PrefaceCHAPTER 1: Eco-testing of textilesCHAPTER 2: A study of natural dyeing in sustainable product developmentCHAPTER 3: Application of vetiver extract on cotton fabric for developing healthcare productsCHAPTER 4: Bio-polymers derived from renewable plant sources and application in apparelsCHAPTER 5: Design and development of eco-friendly nebuliser face maskCHAPTER 6: Development of green compositesCHAPTER 7: Textile recycling - creating a new industryCHAPTER 8: The rise of sustainability in textile manufacturing life cycleCHAPTER 9: Sustainable fashion - a reviewCHAPTER 10: Bio-processing of textilesCHAPTER 11: Development of UV protective garment finished with herbal leaf extractCHAPTER 12: A sustainable step towards the application of micro-encapsulated activated charcoal for anti-microbial finishCHAPTER 13: Enzymatic desizing of hemp cotton fabricsCHAPTER 14: Effect of neem finishing on water hyacinth/cotton blend non-woven fabricsCHAPTER 15: Eco-fashion handbagsCHAPTER 16: A study on chemical treated modal fabricsCHAPTER 17: An optimisation of knitting parametre on anti-microbial treatment by using Box-Behnken designCHAPTER 18: Development of new fibre Girardinia HeterophyllaCHAPTER 19: Assessment of anti-microbial activity on jute cotton blended fabric with aloe vera finishCHAPTER 20: Review on eco-friendly fibres in fibre-reinforced concreteCHAPTER 21: Study on silk fabric using some selected natural dyesCHAPTER 22: Investigation of anti-fungal activity on cotton fabric using natural herbsCHAPTER 23: Study on polyacrylic acid treated silkCHAPTER 24: Eco-friendly technology options available for textile industryCHAPTER 25: Study on comfort properties of apparels produced from bamboo/micromodal blended air vortex yarnsIndex

✦ Subjects

Fashion -- Environmental aspects.;Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects.;Sustainability.