Indian textile industry oblivious

In November 2008, addressing an international conference, Sustainability of Textile Fashion Industry Chain Crop to Shop , in New Delhi, minister of state for textiles, EKVS Elangovan called upon the industry to use cost-effective and energy-efficient technologies for encouraging sustainable development. He added that the industry s size and extensive use of raw materials and chemicals makes it mandatory for the industry to adopt technologies that are environmentally sustainable. 

PAF intends to prepare a manual of best practice for sustainability for the fashion value chain. According to AKG Nair group director at PAF, the initiative is a significant step as India is a developing coimtry with an aspiring consumption drive and vast untapped markets, but seems to be largely unaware of the emerging sensitivities related to sustainability. 

Although most of the current focus on lightening om carbon footprint revolves aroimd transportation and heating issues, the modest little fabric all around you turns out to be from an industry with a gigantic carbon footprint. 

The textile industry is huge, and it is a huge producer of greenhouse gasses. Today s textile industry is one of the largest somces of greenhouse 

Fabries are the elephant in the room. They re all around us but no one is thinking about them. We simply overlook fabrics, may be because they are almost always used as a eomponent in a final product that seems rather innoeuous sheets, blankets, sofa curtains, and of comse clothing. Textiles, including clothing, accounted for about 1 ton of the 19.8 tons of total CO2 emissions produeed by eaeh person in the US in 2006. By contrast, a person in Haiti produced a total of only 0.21 tons of total carbon emissions in 2006. 

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