Processes for reducing the environmental impact of fabric finishing

Weydts, D. De Smet, M. Vanneste Centexbel, Textile Competence Centre, Ghent Belgium [Pg.35]

Finishing companies need to deal with water discharge and its chemical load, energy consnmption, air and water emissions, waste, odors, and noise. Waste management shonld focns primarily on prevention, secondly on reuse, recycling, and revaluation and only if those options fail go to external treatment of waste. [Pg.35]

To avoid water emission and its chemical load and to reduce energy and water consumption, and waste production more environmental friendly and water-free processes such as hotmelt, plasma coating, digital finishing, and radiation-curing are developed for fabric finishing. [Pg.35]

Minimization of waste can be realized by the reduction of water, chemical, and energy consumption, as weU as by reducing solid waste, air and noise pollution, and by minimizing the emission of toxic substances (Barclay and Buckley, 2(X)0a). Waste minimization requires good management of environmental practices, taking into account the following [Pg.35]

Sustainable Apparel. hllp //ds.daLoi l0.101(VB97S-l-7S242-339-3.00002-9 Copyright 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All tights reserved. [Pg.35]

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