Textile Industry's Environmental Effects and Approaching Cleaner Production and Sustainability: an Overview

Toprak, Tuba; Aniş, Pervin

doi:10.15406/jteft.2017.02.00066

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“…However, many small and medium scale industries in Sri Lanka find it difficult to make use of improved technology and allocate capital for waste treatment operations due to high costs involved in these technologies. This situation often has led to the illegal release of untreated or partially treated wastewater to the environment (Toprak, Anis, 2017). Therefore, identification of potential eco-friendly, cost effective technologies to treat wastewater is essential for enabling these industries to better implement their wastewater treatment processes.…”

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Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes Eichhornia Crassipes, Pistia Stratiotes and Salvinia Molesta in Phytoremediation Of Textile Wastewater

Wickramasinghe

Jayawardana

2018

Journal of Water Security

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Phytoremediation is an emerging low cost green technology, which uses plants for treating contaminant in the environment. Phytoremediation potential of locally available aquatic plants Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth), Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce) and Salvinia molesta (water fern) in the treatment process of textile wastewater was investi-gated. The reduction efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total solids (TS), total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), nitrates, phosphates, heavy metals (Cd, Ni and Zn) and total and fecal coliform from the waste-water by each plant species were estimated. Bioconcentration factors (BCF) and translocation factors (TF) of three plant species for Cd, Ni and Zn were also estimated in order to identify their heavy metal absorption and translocation capacity. The results of the study indicated that greater reduction of COD, nitrates, phosphates, total coliform and Zn from the ini-tial wastewater by the three plant species. The results of the study also suggested that the selected aquatic plants are hy-peraccumulators of Cd, Ni and Zn metals. The findings of this study suggest that E. crassipes, P. stratiotes and S. molesta are potential aquatic plants for treating textile waste water.

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Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes Eichhornia Crassipes, Pistia Stratiotes and Salvinia Molesta in Phytoremediation Of Textile Wastewater

Wickramasinghe

Jayawardana

2018

Journal of Water Security

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“…It is a known fact that the utilization of synthetic dyes are harmful to terrestrial and aquatic environments and will have a severe impact on all forms of life 42 . To control this terrible situation and to protect all forms of life on this earth from synthetic dye pollution, the textile industries are needed to adopt certain practices 43 .…”

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Assessment of the aerobic glass beads fixed biofilm reactor (GBs-FBR) for the treatment of simulated methylene blue wastewater

Donkadokula

Kola

Saroj

2020

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The present research is focused on the application of glass beads (GBs) in fixed biofilm reactor (FBR) for the treatment of simulated methylene blue (MB) wastewater for 9 weeks under aerobic conditions. The COD of MB wastewater showed a reduction of 86.48% from 2000 to 270.4 mg/L, and BOD was declined up to 97.7% from 1095.5 to 25.03 mg/L. A drastic increase in the pH was observed until the 3rd week (8.5 to 8.28), and later, marginal changes between 8.30 ± 0.02 were noticed. A dramatic fluctuation was observed in ammonia concentration which increased (74.25 mg/L) up till the 2nd week, and from the 3rd week it started declining. In the 9th week, the ammonia concentration dropped to 16.5 mg/L. The color intensity increased significantly up till the 2nd week (259,237.46 Pt/Co) of the experiment and started decreasing slowly thereafter. The SEM–EDX analysis has shown the maximum quantity of carbon content in the GBs without biofilm, and then in the GB samples of 1st, and 9th-week old aerobic biofilms. Furthermore, Raman spectroscopy results revealed that the 9th-week GBs has a fine and strong MB peak and matched with that of the MB stock solution. Overall, the results have shown that the GBs filter media were suitable for the development of active biofilm communities for the treatment of dye wastewater. Thus, GBs-FBR system can be used for wastewater treatment to solve the current problem of industrial pollution in many countries and to protect the aquatic environment from dye pollution caused by the textile industry.

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“…Indeed, the fashion industry has been marked by the launch of startup fashion companies promoting up cycling of old garments or re-using alternative materials to create new trends. See generally Pinnock (2018), Lipton (2019) and Toprak and Anis (2017).…”

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The Ethical Consumer and Codes of Ethics in the Fashion Industry

Cerchia

Piccolo

2019

Laws

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Sustainability is a central challenge of the fashion industry. In an era where Internet and social networks allow information to spread quickly, more consumers are familiar with the call for “ethical fashion” as disasters such as Rana Plaza resound worldwide. However, consumers interested in buying “ethical” clothing could have a hard time orienting themselves amongst the abundance of brands claiming to be ethical on the market. Consumers might make purchasing decisions based on their knowledge of a brand. In this context, it is imaginable that corporate social responsibility (CSR) communications, including codes of ethics, could constitute one way a consumer can learn more about a company’s values. These codes may serve a variety of purposes—they are undoubtedly one of the ways a brand communicates its commitment to ethical principles. Indeed, by analyzing the codes of ethics of some of the industry’s well-known brands, it is evident that they primarily focus on employment and workers’ rights (including equality and discrimination issues), labor safety standards, bribery and anti-corruption, counterfeiting and unfair business practices, as well as respect for (and sometimes improvement of) the environment. A company’s code of ethics is also a powerful tool for improving brand image by adopting a code that responds to the issues that consumers care about. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between companies that are truly ethical and those that merely appear so. In order to protect consumer confidence in such documents, a fil rouge across legal systems may be found (although the specific characteristics may vary greatly) in the laws that protect consumers from misleading advertising.

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Textile Industry's Environmental Effects and Approaching Cleaner Production and Sustainability: an Overview

Cited by 91 publications

References 29 publications

Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes Eichhornia Crassipes, Pistia Stratiotes and Salvinia Molesta in Phytoremediation Of Textile Wastewater

Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes Eichhornia Crassipes, Pistia Stratiotes and Salvinia Molesta in Phytoremediation Of Textile Wastewater

Assessment of the aerobic glass beads fixed biofilm reactor (GBs-FBR) for the treatment of simulated methylene blue wastewater

The Ethical Consumer and Codes of Ethics in the Fashion Industry

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