Environmental impact of textiles
Subtitle: production, processes and protection
By: Keith Slater
Contributors: Textile Institute (Manchester, England)
Publisher: CRC Press; Woodhead Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boca Raton; Cambridge, Eng
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781855738645; 9781280373213
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Textiles & Polymers; Textile industry; Environmental aspects; Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades
Description: This comprehensive book examines the effects that all phases of textile production and use have on the environment, from growing or making fibres to discarding a product after its useful life has ended. It looks at the physical environment affected by these processes, including resource depletion, pollution and energy use and the biological environment, by considering what happens as a result of manufacture. It also considers the degradation suffered by textile materials within the environment whether by air pollution, wind, water and other agents. The most recent solutions adopted by the indu.
Notes: Published in association with The Textile Institute.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Structure and stability of the ecosystem; 2 The health of our planet; 3 The nature of textiles; 4 Textile fibre production; 5 Yarn production; 6 Fabric production; 7 Fabric treatment processes; 8 Use of textiles; 9 Environmental protection; 10 Effects on textiles of natural exposure; 11 Thermal exposure; 12 Chemical and microbiological attack; 13 Protection of or by textiles from environmental damage; 14 Conclusions; Section 1 Cotton scouring with enzymes; Section 2 Wool scouring with enzymes; Section 3 Bleaching with peroxide; Section 4 Sizing and desizing