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Materials and manufacturing environmental sustainability evaluation of apparel product: knitted T-shirt case study

Mashiur Rahman Khan,Mazedul Islam

Published 2015 in Textiles and Clothing Sustainability

ABSTRACT

In this paper, evaluation of base materials and manufacturing environmental sustainability of selected branded T-shirt products made by Bangladesh is presented. The study is based on performing various eco-friendliness tests for the product base materials and evaluation though a standard tool named Higg Index. For this study, selected apparel branded T-shirt products from renowned brand, namely B, C, D, E, and F, and a researcher-developed BUTex-Innovation brand A are taken into consideration. Better environmental sustainability results, i.e., higher score, is obtained by A, B, C, and D branded T-shirts, but local branded product of E and F resulted in poor environmental sustainability with lower scores in terms of product eco-friendliness tests and High Index assessment tool. Besides, many weaknesses and opportunities for improvement of environmental sustainability in materials and manufacturing stages are identified and suggested to lead the textiles and clothing sectors towards sustainable growth.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2015

  • Venue

    Textiles and Clothing Sustainability

  • Publication date

    2015-07-17

  • Fields of study

    Materials Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1186/S40689-015-0008-8
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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