Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain, Second Edition, is a fully updated, practical guide on how to identify and respond to environmental challenges across the supply chain. This new edition features updates to important data on environmental impacts and their measurements, the sustainable use of water and electricity, and new legislation, standards and schemes. Chapters provide an introduction to the textile supply chain and an overview of the methods used to measure environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy footprints, and a lifecycle assessment (LCA) on environmental impacts. This book will be a standard reference for R&D managers in the textile industry and academic researchers in textile science.
| ISBN: | 9780128197837 |
| Publication date: | 27th March 2020 |
| Author: | Subramanian Senthilkannan (Director and Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Hong Kong) Muthu |
| Publisher: | Woodhead Publishing an imprint of Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | The Textile Institute Book Series |
| Genres: |
Textiles and fibres Manufacturing industries The environment Distribution and logistics management |