Overview
- Offers a variety of case studies that point toward lowering waste in the apparel industry
- Presents a detailed review of the waste management approaches followed in apparel industries to improve sustainability
- Offers insight on consumer awareness of sustainability in the fashion industry
Part of the book series: Textile Science and Clothing Technology (TSCT)
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This book offers a variety of cases offering insights into waste assessment and moving towards zero waste in the apparel industry. In an industry as large and widespread as apparel, efforts toward sustainability and waste reduction are critical. The chapters here cover a variety of topics related to apparel sustainability, including management approaches, circular economy methods, and case studies that academics, students, and professionals in this industry can use to continue to strive toward a sustainable future.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 170 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zero Waste Sustainable Apparel Industry
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Textile Science and Clothing Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76542-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-76541-4Published: 13 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-76544-5Published: 13 December 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-76542-1Published: 12 December 2024
Series ISSN: 2197-9863
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9871
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Structural Materials, Waste Management/Waste Technology