WASTES FROM TEXTILE PROCESSING

Cone Mills Professor of Textile Chemistry, NCSU College of Textiles 

This chapter describes wastes from textile processing operations and their sources, based on commercial practice, literature, and experiences related to the United States and Europe. Certainly there are different practices in less developed emerging economies. 

In order to convert fibers into consumer products, several processes are required in a production seqnence, as indicated in Fignre 7.1. This chapter reviews environmental impacts of each of the above textile processing steps after fiber formation. In addition, information is presented on processing auxiliary chemicals, as well as some general ideas concerning process improvements to reduce wastes and environmental impact of processing. 

There are fundamentally two approaches to environmental protection waste treatment and waste prevention. Treatment systems are well known and are beyond the scope of this discnssion. Some comments on prevention will be presented. These pollntion prevention ideas are similar to the more extensive treatment given in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Manual for Best Management Practices for Pollution Prevention in Textile Processing [1]. 

Plastics and the Environment, Edited by Anthony L. Andiady. ISBN 0-471-09520-6 2003 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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Smith, B., 2003. Wastes from textile processing. In Andrady, A.L. (Ed.), Plastics and the Environment, first ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA. 

WASTES FROM TEXTILE PROCESSING Table 7.27 Dye Classes and Fibers... 

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