Roadmap to sustainable textiles and clothing

Abstract

The concept of sustainability is widely used in every industrial sector, including textiles and clothing industry and is one of the important agendas of today’s textiles and clothing sector. The textile and clothing sector consists of a fairly long supply chain, starting with fiber formation and ending at the apparel production and consisting of many intermittent stages. When it comes to the lifecycle of textile products, this entire lengthy supply chain occupies nearly half and the rest is left to the consumers in terms of use and disposal stages. Measuring and practicing the sustainability of textile products through this lengthy supply chain and across all the lifecycle phases of a textile product is not an easy task, but doable though. Since its first definition, sustainability has been used and defined in different sectors in various forms and it has many faces and facets. Referring to the very first definition of sustainable development …