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Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain, Second Edition, is a fully updated, practical guide on how to identify and respond to environmental challenges across the supply chain. This new edition features updates to important data on environmental impacts and their measurements, the sustainable use of water and electricity, and new legislation, standards and schemes. Chapters provide an introduction to the textile supply chain and an overview of the methods used to measure environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy footprints, and a lifecycle assessment (LCA) on environmental impacts. This book will be a standard reference for R&D managers in the textile industry and academic researchers in textile science. Provides a holistic view of the sustainability issues that affect the textile value chainExplains ways to calculate the textile industry's use of resources, its impact on global warming, and the pollution and waste it generatesReviews key methods for the reduction of the environmental impact of textile products and how they are implemented in practiceIncludes methods for calculating product carbon footprints (PCFs), ecological footprints (EFs) and lifecycle assessments (LCA) | Assessing the Environmental Impact of Textiles and the Clothing Supply Chain by Subramanian Senthilk Muthu, Paperback | Indigo Chapters