Life Cycle Assessment of Technical Textile Waste: Pilot Evaluation of Environmental Impacts

Sohail Yasin; Danmei Sun

Life Cycle Assessment of Technical Textile Waste: Pilot Evaluation of Environmental Impacts

Sohail Yasin
, Danmei Sun

School of Textiles & Design

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Abstract

Gate-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is used for environmental impact assessment of one-ton flame retarded cotton, from the final manufactured product to disposal. Use phase of flame retarded textile is delocalized to the country it’s washed and dried in, the United Kingdom. The real end-of-life scenarios were considered, landfill and valorization without energy. The obvious difficulty was lack of Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data from the manufacturing unit of technical textile and the regulations of the country it’s produced in. The assessment of environmental impacts consisting of the inputs (energy, water, chemicals etc.) and the outputs was characterized to major pollution categories.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Sept 2018
Event	2nd International Forum on Textiles for Graduate Students 2018 - Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China Duration: 8 Sept 2018 → 11 Sept 2018

Conference

Conference	2nd International Forum on Textiles for Graduate Students 2018
Abbreviated title	IFTGS 2018
Country/Territory	China
City	Tianjin
Period	8/09/18 → 11/09/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Life Cycle Assessment of Technical Textile Waste: Pilot Evaluation of Environmental Impacts

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