Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Important Step in Sustainability: Polyethylene Terephthalate Recycling and the Recent Developments

   • Sedat Kumartasli, Ozan Avinc

   Pages 1-19

3. Thinking Textile Materials from Their Nature: Ethical Materials for Fashion Design with Technological, Social, and Aesthetic Sense

   • Angela Liliana Dotor Robayo

   Pages 21-43

4. Sustainable Green-Based Composites from Renewable Resources in Textile: Industrial Cotton Wastes

   • Emine Dilara Kocak, Munir Tasdemir, Cigdem Gul

   Pages 45-61

5. Sustainability in Regenerated Textile Fibers

   • Aravin Prince Periyasamy, Jiri Militky

   Pages 63-95

6. Use of Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) in Composite Materials for Sustainability

   • Munir Taşdemir, Çiğdem Gül, Emine Dilara Kocak

   Pages 97-115

7. Recycling of Marine Litter and Ocean Plastics: A Vital Sustainable Solution for Increasing Ecology and Health Problem

   • Sedat Kumartasli, Ozan Avinc

   Pages 117-137

8. Sustainability in Polyurethane Synthesis and Bio-based Polyurethanes

   • Hilal Olcay, Emine Dilara Kocak, Zehra Yıldız

   Pages 139-156

9. Textile Industry Insights Towards Impact of Regenerated Cellulosic and Synthetic Fibres on Microfibre Pollution

   • Songyi Yan, Celina Jones, Claudia E. Henninger, Helen McCormick

   Pages 157-171

10. Sustainable, Renewable, and Biodegradable Poly(Lactic Acid) Fibers and Their Latest Developments in the Last Decade

    • Farnaz Sadat Fattahi, Akbar Khoddami, Ozan Avinc

    Pages 173-194

11. Correction to: Thinking Textile Materials from Their Nature: Ethical Materials for Fashion Design with Technological, Social, and Aesthetic Sense

    • Angela Liliana Dotor Robayo

    Pages C1-C1

12. Back Matter

    Pages 195-200

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This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally. Case studies are provided that cover the theoretical and practical implications of sustainable textile issues, including environmental footprints of textile manufacturing, consumer behavior, eco-design in clothing and apparels, supply chain sustainability, the chemistry of textile manufacturing, waste management and textile economics. The set will be of interest to researchers, engineers, industrialists, R&D managers and students working in textile chemistry, economics, materials science, and sustainable consumption and production.  

This volume explores some alternative synthetic raw materials resulting from the recycling and regeneration of renewable textile fibers, and how these sustainable green-based composites can contribute to improved ecological and human health. The book offers insights into the impacts of human-made fibers and microfiber pollution, and how biodegradable material sourcing can help to curb harmful environmental impacts from these practices and achieve clothing and apparel sustainability. 

• Sustainable Development
• Economic Geography
• Environmental Footprints
• Human Environmental Interactions
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Microfiber Pollution
• Biodegradable Textiles
• Cellulose Waste
• textile engineering

• Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

• Centro de Estudios para el Lujo Sustentable, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Miguel Angel Gardetti

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 75 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited multiple books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.), founded the Centre for Study of Sustainable Luxury, first initiative of its kind in the world with an academic/research profile. He is also the founder and director of the “Award for Sustainability in the Universe of Luxury in Latin America”. For his contributions in this field, he was granted the “Sustainable Leadership Award (academic category),” in February, 2015 in Mumbai (India).

He is an active member of the Global Compact in Argentina –which is a United Nations initiative-, and was a member of its governance body –the Board of The Global Compact, Argentine Chapter - for two terms. He was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. This task force was made up of over 55 renowned academics worldwide pertaining to top Business Schools.

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