Textile industry provide employment to large section of human race but at the same time it is causing a lot of damage to environment as well as to human being. The effluent or the wastewater from these industries is discharged in the nearby water sources thereby contaminating them leading to many health associated problems. Extraction and utilization of eco-friendly fibres produced by adopting environment friendly processes at every stage is the need of the hour.

1. ECO-TEXTILES: SAVE GREEN GO GREEN
Dr.ShameembanuA.Byadgi
Ph.D. (Textile and Apparel Designing)
College of Community Science
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

2.  Basic necessity of life
 Second skin
 Protects from harsh
environmental conditions
 Improves the physique &
personality
 Symbol of socio-economic status
Man lived sustainably over the years………
Today his desires are unlimited……

4. Rapid Industrialization of Textile industry has created
an Ecological imbalance
Forest

5. Water

6. Human health
Insufficient Protection of
work force from dust &
noise during various
textile processing stages

9. What does Eco-friendly mean?
Eco-friendlyproduct would involve:
No damageto environment
No impact on human health
Conservation of natural resources (water/ energy)
Use of toxic free (organic)or recyclableraw materials

10. Any textile product, which is
Produced in eco-friendly
manner and Processed under
eco-friendly environment is
knownas Eco-Textiles
Eco-Textiles is also known as
 Sustainable Fashion
 Eco-Fashion
 Eco-Tech
For a textile to be sustainable, it should
be
 Made from a Renewable Resource
 Have a Good Ecological Footprint
 Not use any (or little) Chemicals while

11. Factors that a sustainable textile must fulfill
 Procurement of raw material does not create a negative impact on land & water resources (natural
fibres) or adversely impact the fossil fuel resources (synthetic fibres)
 Production considerations do not create adverse impact on sources of water and energy
 Added chemicals do not affect the health of textile workers as well as consumers
 The end-of-life of the textile product is smooth (biodegradable) and allows reclamation of the
infrastructure required to sustain further production
Cradle to Grave is used in reference
to a firm’s perspective on the
environmental impact created by
their products or activities from the
beginning of its life cycle to its end
or disposal
By contrast, cradle-to-grave refers to a company taking responsibility
for the disposal of goods it has produced, but not necessarily putting
products’ constituent components back into service
Cradle to Cradle is a phrase
invented by Walter R. Stahel
(1970s) and popularized by
William McDonough and Michael
Braungart. This framework seeks
to create production techniques
that are not just efficient but are
essentially waste free. In cradle-
to-cradle production, all material
inputs and outputs are seen
either as technical or biological
nutrients. Technical nutrients can
be recycled or reused with no loss
of quality and biological nutrients
composted or consumed

12. Ways in which the Textile Industry can go Green…..
1
Using Renewable Resources that can be replenished
easily and in a short time

13. 2 Following Fair Trade Practices

14. 3
Reducing Ecological Footprint or demand on natural
resources like land & water
Ecological footprint (EF) is a measure for the amount of productive land, sea (water) and natural resources one
needs to produce the resources it consumes and to dispose off its waste. It is measure of human demand on the
Earth’s ecosystems

15. 4
Reducing the Carbon Footprint by reducing/ substituting
the chemicals required
A Carbon footprint is measured in carbon dioxide equivalents and
gives the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted
How Carbon Footprint can be reduced?

16. Eco-friendly Fibres

24. Natural Dyes

25. Roots
Natural dye sources

27. Animal origin

29. Benefits of herbal clothing  Helps to restore balance within the body’s
systems
 Strengthens the immune system
 Helps in reducing the spread of diseases
 Exhibits anti-bacterial & anti-fungal
properties

30. According to the Environmental Protection
Agency an estimated 12.4 million tons of textiles
were generated in 2008
RECYCLING/ UPCYCLING Most of the clothing that is disposed
off each year is still wearable, but is
thrown out simply because it is out of
style, old or the consumers are just
tired of it. At least 50% of them are
recyclable
These sites pose a threat to local ground water supplies
which gets contaminated and can be up to 200 times as
toxic as raw sewage
Textiles ending into landfills

31. Recycling/ Upcycling of textiles involves re-working of old textiles and updating them to match the
prevailing fashion/ styles thereby increasing the life of the cloth and eliminating the pressure on
the farmlands to grow huge amount of cotton using chemicals
Reduces the need for landfill
space
1 Reduces the pressure on virgin
resources
2
By re-using existing fibres and textiles,
pressure to produce raw materials is reduced
Results in less pollution &
energy savings
3

32. Using fabric composed of recycled
fibres
Armani Jeans developed new
materials using 60% recycled
wool & recycled cross dyed
cotton
Recycling Textile Fabrics (Upcycling)
Using unwanted factory surpluses, off-
cuts or materials which would otherwise
be thrown away

34. Benefits of eco-textiles

35. Sustainable methods and techniques need to be
adopted by textile industries in order to save the
Mother Earth