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Eco-friendly Textiles : a Boost to Sustainability


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1 Faculty of Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Design, New Delhi, India
     

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This article presents an overview of the textile industry highlighting major processes, techniques and practices that are used to make textile industry more sustainable. There is an essential need to identify the stages in various steps of textile production that are said to be the greatest cause for environmental degradation with a special focus on substances that are likely to cause harm to eco- balance. Now a days various processes, techniques and practices related to textile production have been developed to cure the world from being affected by the hazardous effects of chemicals etc. which are either used in textile industry or released as a by-product by the textile industries. These all sustainable methods and techniques to be adopted by textile industries in order to save environment and to foster sustainability in the field of textiles.

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Sustainability, Textiles, Eco-friendly Fibres, Green Dyes
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Aparna Sharma
Faculty of Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Design, New Delhi, India

Abstract


This article presents an overview of the textile industry highlighting major processes, techniques and practices that are used to make textile industry more sustainable. There is an essential need to identify the stages in various steps of textile production that are said to be the greatest cause for environmental degradation with a special focus on substances that are likely to cause harm to eco- balance. Now a days various processes, techniques and practices related to textile production have been developed to cure the world from being affected by the hazardous effects of chemicals etc. which are either used in textile industry or released as a by-product by the textile industries. These all sustainable methods and techniques to be adopted by textile industries in order to save environment and to foster sustainability in the field of textiles.

Keywords


Sustainability, Textiles, Eco-friendly Fibres, Green Dyes