Contribution of traceability towards attaining sustainability in the textile sector

Kumar, Vijay; Agrawal, Tarun Kumar; Wang, Lichuan; Chen, Yan

doi:10.1186/s40689-017-0027-8

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“…Various research and studies [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] are confirming or supporting this trend. Regarding the sustainability, textiles and apparel manufacturing practices have a significant impact on both environmental and social welfare.…”

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Sustainability: Increasing Impact on Textile and Apparel Industry

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2017

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All societies face this economic problem. Paul Samuelson, the Nobel Prize winner for economics, is often credited with providing the first clear and simple explanation of the economic problem. He stated 3 that in order to solve the problem of scarcity; all societies, no matter how big or small, developed or not, must endeavor to answer three basic questions:What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?Answering these questions is not so simple and certainly there is no single common reply to that. The people should decide the best combination of goods and services to meet their needs. For example, how many resources should be allocated to consumer goods, and how many resources to capital goods, or how many resources should go to education or defense? They also have to decide the best combination of factors to create the desired output of goods and services. Finally, all societies need to decide who will get the output from the country's economic activity, and how much they will get. For example, who will get the fashion products, computers and cars which have been produced? This is often called the problem of distribution. It is another problem that various economic systems have yet failed to provide a virtuous solution.The appropriate answers to that question are somehow stipulated within the concept of sustainability. Sustainability defines, in fundamental ways, the communities in which we live and is the source for renewable and non renewable resources on which civilization depends. Our health and well-being, our economy, and our social life and safety all require a high quality environment.2 If we act on that understanding, we tend to prosper; if not we would be liable to suffer.Eventually, continuous advancement of industrialization and sophistication of technologies have improved the quality of life on the expenses of resource depletion, environment destruction and global warming. Partly negligence and partly unconscious act of most communities have gradually worsened the environmental issues we are facing today. Therefore, a new roadmap was inevitable. The World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister G. Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world twenty years ago to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. It was introduced as Sustainable development in 1987. It is defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" in Our Common Future which is known as the Brundtland Report. 4In general, sustainability is focused on three different aspects; economic sustainability, social sustainability and environmental sustainability. Each segment is vitally important, but it is worth reminding that without economic (or financial) sustainability, not enough attention has been paid to environmental (ecological) sustainability and social sustainability. Furthermore, four key areas f...

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Sustainability: Increasing Impact on Textile and Apparel Industry

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2017

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“…The counterpart of social sustainability deals with the consumer's mindset. Consumers around the world are aware about sustainability [93,94]. However, sustainable tagging and labeling [6,95], consumers' knowledge regarding sustainable products [96,97], willingness to buy sustainable products [98,99] and green marketing [100] are questionable concerns.…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Cotton-Based Textile Wet Processing

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The textile and fashion industries account for a significant part of global business. Textile wet processing (TWP) is a crucial stage in textile manufacturing. It imparts aesthetics as well as functional appeal on the textile fabric and ultimate products. Nevertheless, it is considered as one of the most polluting industries and threatens sustainability. There have been different approaches to transform this polluting industry to a sustainable industry. Many researchers have found this challenging, as sustainable, eco-friendly, green or cleaner wet processing might not be always applicable and relevant from the perspective of industrial applications. The present work helps us understand the current state of research of cotton-based textile processes including proposed sustainable approaches. It also examines the achievement of the degree of sustainability of those proposed processes with the lens of the triple bottom line (TBL) framework, identifies existing limitations, and suggests future research scopes that might pave ways for young researchers to learn and undertake new experimental and theoretical research.

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“…This in turn creates small businesses and more local jobs because a majority of these recycling facilities employs around 35 to 50 workers each [46]. One third of all garments produced ended up in a landfill-if this material was sent to a secondhand facility, over $175 million in income would be generated [53]. By easing reuse processes for customers, the secondhand industry can grow significantly.…”

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“…Cases 4-6: "RFID reduced human errors from labor-intensive and error-prone operations such as counting, manual data entry, and put-away" [53]. One study saw human location errors decrease by 90% after implementing RFID in their warehouses: 50-80% of these warehouse costs are in labor associated with material handling [56].…”

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Sustainability Benefits of RFID Technology in the Apparel Industry

2019

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Digitalization and big data are currently moving many industries forward and creating value-added efficiency improvements, new services, and business models. One area in industrial digitalization is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and related sensor technologies with benefits in asset visibility, employee productivity, risk management, loss, and theft mitigation. This literature review article is focused on specifically looking at digitalization in the apparel industry. Due to its complex global network, it has been a challenging industry to implement such technological advancements. Recent novel RFID system integrations have included highly innovative solutions in new store concepts, business models, and product traceability in the value chain. Inventory management has been improved by using RFID technology for creating and updating and for more efficient controls. Also, chain of custody of the various products in apparel and fashion can be more traceable and efficient. Improved customer connectivity and, therefore, customization are also important benefits using these technologies. Most benefits in using RFID in the apparel industry are related to economics and efficiencies. Similarly looking at scientific literature, the majority is focused on the more business-related value creation. In this publication, results of a systematically made literature review focusing on the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic systems) is reported. This review is done using value chain analyses, and it focuses on reported case studies to highlight the sustainability benefits of the RFID technology. According to the literature findings, this is the first review article that reports on the broader sustainability impact of RFID in the apparel industry. The findings show a very limited number of articles and the main focus of the articles found was in environmental aspects (44%). Following that was economic benefits (36%), and only a limited amount of research articles was found in social aspects of sustainability (20%). In addition to identifying the sustainability areas that RFID technology is related to, this article shows other areas of improvements using RFID technology in different parts of the apparel value chain.

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Contribution of traceability towards attaining sustainability in the textile sector

Cited by 50 publications

References 36 publications

Sustainability: Increasing Impact on Textile and Apparel Industry

Sustainability: Increasing Impact on Textile and Apparel Industry

Sustainability Assessment of Cotton-Based Textile Wet Processing

Sustainability Benefits of RFID Technology in the Apparel Industry

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