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Sustainability is one of the biggest issues in the textile and fashion industry. Though several government organisations and countries are taking steps to implement sustainable practices in manufacturing industries, still, the gap between the strategies and implementation is huge. This chapter details the non-sustainable aspects of the fashion industry briefly. The impact of fast fashion, various synthetic textiles material, resource depletion and their impact on eco-balance are discussed. The latter part of the chapter details the potential alternative raw material proposed for sustainable practices in the fashion industry.

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Muthu, S.S., Rathinamoorthy, R. (2021). Sustainability and Fashion. In: Bacterial Cellulose. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9581-3_1

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