Case Study on Cotton Textile Waste Management

Abstract

Our paper is trying to focus on Cotton textile industry and its sustainability. The Objectives of our study are: (i) Gather information about waste management during the production of cotton. (ii) Spread the awareness of adverse effect of cotton wastage and fashion on environment. (iii) Study the composition and management of cotton that is used in abundance in daily fashion. (iv) Focus on some measures to reduce the waste and recycle it. Some of our observations during this study are (i) Cloths we use daily, contribute roughly 1/5th of water pollution and even adverse the condition of air and landfill pollution. [5] (ii) Among the total usage of all kind’s fabrics like rayon, polyester, nylon etc. Cotton contributes 65% of this usage. (iii) Very less attention is paid to the most significant waste, “Textile/Cotton Waste”. We studied varies steps to achieve goal of reducing this cotton waste like, (i) to find out the composition of waste produced. (ii) Different ways to dispose the waste produced in cotton industry. (iii) Recycle the fabric as far as possible.