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Recycling from Waste in Fashion and Textiles

A Sustainable and Circular Economic Approach
Edited by Pintu Pandit, Shakeel Ahmed, Kunal Singha and Sanjay Shrivastava
Copyright: 2020   |   Status: Published
ISBN: 9781119620495  |  Hardcover  |  
486 pages | 112 illustrations
Price: $225 USD
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This important and unique book addresses the role of sustainability in fashion and textiles and shows the latest state-of-the-art advances in textile and fashion materials technology.

Audience
This book is suitable for both researchers and industry specialists in the following fields: clothing manufacturing and fashion designers, textiles, dyes and pigments, green chemistry, materials science, sustainability and waste management, the circular economy.

Description
The alarming level of greenhouse gases in the environment, fast depleting natural resources and the increasing level of industrial effluents, have made every single manufacturing activity come under the scrutiny of sustainability. When all kinds of waste such as clothes, furniture, carpets, televisions, shoes, paper, food wastes etc. end up in the landfill, only a few of them are naturally decomposed, and thus a large majority remains as non-biodegradable. As far as used textile products are concerned, there are now attempts to recycle or up-cycle.
This book addresses the role of sustainability by using textile waste in fashion and textiles with respect to manufacturing materials. In particular, it discusses utilization of natural waste for sustainable textile coloration; sustainable encapsulation of natural dyes from plant waste for textiles; using waste in handloom textiles. The book also details the economic and business challenges and opportunities it poses. In particular, it discusses innovating fashion brands by using textile waste; business paradigm shifts of 21st century fashion from recycling and upcycling; the circular economy in fashion and textile from waste; and offers future pathways of waste utilization for fashion.

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Author / Editor Details
Pintu Pandit is an Assistant Professor in Textile Design Department at National Institute of Fashion Technology under Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, Patna campus. He received his PhD degree in Fibers and Textile Processing Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.

Shakeel Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the Higher Education Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He obtained his PhD in the area of biopolymers and bionanocomposites from Jamia Millia Islamia in the year 2016 and has published several research publications in the area of green nanomaterials and biopolymers for various applications including biomedical, packaging, sensors, and water treatment.

Kunal Singha is an Assistant Professor in Department of Textile Design at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Patna, India. He received his education at WBUT, IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur, India and his primary research work is in sustainable textiles, quality, supply and manufacturing chain.

Sanjay Shrivastava has 23 years of progressive responsibility and operational leadership experience in India’s top academic organization imparting education in Fashion Design, Management and Technology. He is the Director of NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology), Patna, India.

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