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• A Workbook for Pollution Prevention by Source Reduction in Textile Wet Processing

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/02/01091.pdf
  Workbook, written in 1988, and presenting pertinent ideas for waste and waste source reduction in textile wet processing. Author: Brent Smith.

• An Overview of Textiles Processing and Related Environmental Concerns

  http://greenpeace.to/publications/textiles_2005.pdf
  Technical paper presenting an overview of the textile wet processing and finishing industry and its major sources of environmental contamination. From Greenpeace Research Laboratories. Authors: A. Walters, D. Santillo and P. Johnston.

• Best Management Practices for Pollution Prevention in the Textile Industry

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/02/01099.htm
  Technical manual for best management practices for the prevention of pollution in the textile industry. From the US Environmental Protection Agency. Document of 443 pages.

• Clean Technologies in U.S. Industries: Focus on Textiles

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/06/05656.htm
  Brief overview of the US textile industry, with an emphasis on efforts to incorporate pollution prevention and clean technologies into its manufacturing operations.

• Cotton Textile Processing: Waste Generation and Effluent Treatment

  http://www.cotton.org/journal/2007-11/3/upload/jcs11-141.pdf
  Technical paper discussing waste production in textile desizing, mercerizing, bleaching, dyeing, finishing and printing processes, and electro-oxidation, bio-treatment, photochemical and membrane technologies as advanced methods of effluent treatment. From the Journal of Cotton Science. Authors: B. Ramesh Babu and others.

• Dyeing Reactive Dyes Using Less Salt

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/03/02346.pdf
  Short technical paper presenting new formulas to facilitate utilizing less salt during the process of exhaust dyeing of fiber reactive dyes. Author: Clyde B. Anderson.

• Ecotextiles: The Way Forward for Sustainable Development in Textiles

  http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1277
  Collection of 23 papers from the Ecotextile 2004 Conference held at the University of Bolton, exploring recycling and the use of waste as raw materials in the textile and carpet industries. Edited by M. Miraftab and A.R. Horrocks.

• Energy Conservation in the Textile Industry

  http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/import/userfiles/puffk/textile.pdf
  Technical manual on energy saving technologies in the textile industry, designed for plant-level engineers and operators in the developing countries. From the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

• Environmental Audit and Introduction of Multiple Cleaner Production Measures: Goulburn Wool Scour

  http://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/environmental-audit-and-introduction-of-multiple-cleaner-production-measures-goulburn-wool-scour-1625
  Abstract of an article about the efforts of the Goulburn Wool Scour Company invested in cleaner production technologies, using information technology to measure, monitor and report on environmental performance. Full article available upon registration.

• Environmental Guidelines for the Textile Industry.

  http://www.miga.org/documents/Textiles.pdf
  Technical article presenting guidelines for the reduction of chemical waste and contaminated air emissions in textile wet processing stages. From the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

• Environmental Management System Demonstration Project

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/01/00326.pdf
  Final report from 1996 on NSF International's EMS Demonstration Project focusing on the implementation of the ISO 14001 Standard on wastewater management by 18 different companies. Author: Craig P. Diamond.

• Enzymatic Bleach Cleanup in Cotton Dyeing

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/10/09235.htm
  Case study of the Dutch Institute for Applied Environmental Economics (TME), describing the technique of using enzymes (Terminox Ultra) to replace chemical agents in bleach neutralization prior to the dyeing of cotton fabrics.

• Identification and Reduction of Pollution Sources in Textile Wet Processing

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/02/01068.pdf
  Technical paper about the identification of pollutant sources in textile wet processing, and suggestions of some management strategies by which source reduction can be accomplished. Author: Brent Smith.

• Industry Overview of Textile Manufacturing

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/09/08377.htm
  Article about possible hazardous wastes produced during dyeing and finishing processes in the textile and floor covering industries.

• Investigation of Color Removal by Chemical Oxydation for Three Reactive Textile Dyes and Spent Textile Dye Wastewater

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212000-11100044/unrestricted/Etd.pdf
  Master of Science thesis on research investigating various methods of decolorization of spent textile dye wastewater, and presenting predictive models of wastewater effluent for the treatment processes. Author: Jessica C. Edwards.

• Manual Handling in the Textile Industry

  http://www.hse.gov.uk/textiles/textiles-and-manual-handling.htm
  Guide to the causes of physical injuries from incorrect handling of materials and products in the textile industry. Risk assessment and prevention, and technical solutions to specific problems. From the UK Health and Safety Commission's Textile Industry Advisory Committee.

• OSHA Textiles

  http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/textiles/index.html
  A collection of articles, fact sheets, documents, standards, directives and studies dealing with safety and health issues associated with the textile industry. Links to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Sector Notebook Profile of the Textiles Industry. From the U.S. Department of Labor.

• Pollution Prevention Studies in the Textile Wet Processing Industry

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/01/00469.pdf
  Investigation of pollution prevention opportunities in the textile wet processing industry, through audits at a commercial laundry, yarn processing, dyeing and finishing plants, and a cotton dyeing and finishing plant. Authors: Ilse Hendrix and Gregory Boardman.

• Preliminary Industry Characterization: Fabric Printing, Coating and Dyeing

  http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/coat/fabric/pic-fabr.pdf
  National emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for the textile fabric printing, dyeing and coating source category, as they are currently being developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

• Preliminary Industry Characterization: Fabric Printing, Coating and Dyeing

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/01/00166.pdf
  Draft paper published in 1998 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), providing an outline of national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for the textile fabric printing, dyeing and coating industry.

• Salt Requirements Put Pressure on Wet Processing Plants

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/03/02961.pdf
  Technical paper about possible solutions for a more effective management of salinity in textile wet processing. Author: Dr. Fred L. Cook.

• Source Reduction of Chlorinated Slovents

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/02/01261.pdf
  One of twelve reports which evaluate the opportunities for source reduction of chlorinated solvents in twelve specific industries, focusing on the textile wet processing industry.

• Textile Quality and Biotechnology

  http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/fa/Actions/Textile_Quality_and_Biotechnology
  Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of an European Concerted Research Action, with the objective of developing environmentally friendly production technologies for the textile industry by using enzymatic processes.

• The Future of Pollution Prevention

  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/01/00386.pdf
  Review of present practices and an analysis of future needs and opportunities forpollution prevention, as an alternative to costly waste treatments in the global textile wet processing industry. Author: Brent Smith.

 

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