Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 75 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited multiple books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.), founded the Centre for Study of Sustainable Luxury, first initiative of its kind in the world with an academic/research profile. He is also the founder and director of the “Award for Sustainability in the Universe of Luxury in Latin America”. For his contributions in this field, he was granted the “Sustainable Leadership Award (academic category),” in February, 2015 in Mumbai (India). He is an active member of the Global Compact in Argentina –which is a United Nations initiative-, and was a member of its governance body –the Board of The Global Compact, Argentine Chapter - for two terms. He was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. This task force was made up of over 55 renowned academics worldwide pertaining to top Business Schools.

• Chapter1: Important step in sustainability: polyethylene terephthalate recycling and the recent developments.- Chapter2: Thinking textile materials from their nature: ethical materials for fashion design with technological, social and aesthetic sense.- Chapter3: Sustainable green-based composites from renewable resources in textile; industrial cotton wastes.- Chapter4: Sustainability in regenerated textile fibers.- Chapter5: Use of Roselle (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) in composite materials for sustainability.- Chapter6: Recycling of marine litter and ocean plastics: a vital sustainable solution for increasing ecology and health problem.- Chapter7: Sustainability in polyurethane synthesis and bio-based polyurethanes.- Chapter8: Textile industry insights towards impact of regenerated cellulosic and synthetic fibres on microfibre pollution.- Chapter9: Sustainable, renewable and biodegradable poly(lactic acid) fibers and their latest developmentsin the last decade.