Model of Industrial Textile Waste Management

Abstract

Manufacturing of textile and apparel contributes depletion of water resources, the use of natural resources, the release of water and air pollution and increasing the amount of waste entering landfills. Industrial textile waste represents nearly half of the whole flow of textile waste. Major part of the industrial textile waste is landfilled, because of the lack of technologies and infrastructure for recycling. The practice of mixing all the textile cuttings at the apparel production companies, leads to the challenge for reuse or recycling of the leftovers.. Textile companies are obliged to look for alternative waste management options in order to meet the requirements and challenges of Circular Economy action plan published by the European Commission. This article represents the model created for the analysis of industrial textile waste flows and development of scenarios for reasonable waste management. The model and methodologies involved are oriented to preventive solutions -The evaluation of the efficiency of the model is based on sustainability indicators which represents the effect of the scenarios for environmental, economic and social aspects. The implementation of the model to the case study of Lithuanian apparel production company, have disclosed that improvements at the industrial textile waste management within the company, could lead to the increase of efficient use of resources (three times) and environmental impact (twice).

Assessment of Consumer Preference for Upcycled Textile Products

“…As for aesthetic appearance, slippers, hair accessories and jewelry and cell phone cover were rated excellent. [4] the textile industry and congruently fashion industry share a significant impact on water resources, natural resources and inputs of pollutants into the atmosphere, in addition to the amount of waste Excellent Good Fair entering the landfill. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation [5] we use the earth's resources to manufacture products, we make them useful and when we no longer need them, we throw them away.…”

A literature review on circular economy adoption in the manufacturing sector

“…Bradley et al, (2018) used the traditional total life cycle cost model to support the decision process along the entire product life cycle. Rapsikevičienė et al, (2019) proposed a model supporting producers acting to prevent waste creation and to guarantee high-efficiency level, by assessing environmental, social and economic implications of different scenarios generated according to the producer decisions, while Comanita et al, (2018) developed the economic and environmental performance efficiency evaluation of ecodesigned products.…”

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“…Considering the goal of CE of reducing waste and toxic substances, waste management is also tackled. This enables to dismantle waste generated by manufacturers by also handling hazardous waste (Rapsikevičienė et al, 2019). Moreover, to reduce at minimum the consumption of energy and materials during production activities and to ensure environmental, economic and social benefits, manufacturers put in place material and energy efficiency practices (Choi et al, 2019).…”

Are low- and middle-income countries profiting from fast fashion?

“…The issues in each LMIC are unique and require a customized set of managerial solutions. Waste management in the production (Rapsikevičienė et al , 2019; Khurana, 2020), upcycling (Pandit et al , 2019), second-hand clothing (Machado et al , 2019; Khurana and Tadesse, 2019), use of recycled materials (Leal Filho et al , 2019) are a few noteworthy strategies of the sector which takes the sustainability dialogue a bit forward. The Pulse (2019) Update report indicates that, as a whole, the fashion industry is slowing down on sustainability efforts.…”