The Apparel Industry: Issues and Solutions 1 Please note: This report focuses on environmental impacts and solutions associated with apparel‚ a second report will present the equally complex social responsibility (SR) issues associated with this industry’s life cycle including fair trade‚ fair labor and animal well-being issues. Published by Labeling Ecologically Approved Fabrics (LEAF) Special thanks to: Coral Rose‚ Founder Eco-Innovations Sustainable Textile Strategies Dr. Gwendolyn Hustvedt-Professor
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Low-carbon economy is an emerging economic system and development model‚ contains a series of new low-carbon industries‚ low-carbon technologies‚ low-carbon city‚ low-carbon life. By substantially increasing the use efficiency‚ large-scale use of renewable energy and low-carbon energy‚ large-scale research and development of greenhouse gas emission reduction technology‚ to build low-carbon society‚ maintenance of ecological balance. Development of low-carbon economy is both a involved in the mode
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ANIMAL FIBER Animal fibers are largely those which cover mammals such as sheep‚ goats and rabbits with well-known examples such as alpaca‚ merino‚ wool‚ fur and mohair. Animal fibers are natural fibers that consist largely of particular proteins. Instances are silk‚ hair/fur (including wool) and feathers. The animal fibers used most commonly both in the manufacturing world as well as by the hand spinners are wool from domestic sheep and silk. Also very popular are alpaca fiber and mohair
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(Changzhou) Materials Technology Co.‚ Ltd. built the first large-scale macro preparation‚ full-automatic graphene powder production line in China‚ with existing capacity of 100 t/a‚ which is estimated to rise to 1‚000 t/a by 2016. In May 2013‚ 2D Carbon Graphene Material Co.‚ Ltd. put its 30‚000m2/a transparent
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may have thought to improve raw material. People started to use fibers found in nature and hand processes to make fibers into cloth. Silk from China was famous item of trade and it was imported to Egypt as earlier as 1000 B.C. Cotton has been cultivated for more than 5000 years‚ it was grown and used for textile purposes in Indus Valley well before 2100 B.C and in Mexico by 3500 B.C. With the passage of time both the fibers and processes of fabric formation improved. However‚ till 1700 A.D
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Modal Fabric Modal fiber is a new kind of regenerated cellulose fiber produced by FCFC (Formosa Chemicals & fiber Corporation)‚ called Formotex fiber. Its key advantage is its high tensile strength. Compared with Viscose‚ Its Wet/dry Tenacity is 1.5 times higher. Due to the high quality of the fiber‚ the resultant yarn is also of high quality. The definition stipulates minimum values concerning the wet modulus and fiber breaking resistance on fiber state. Modal fiber satisfies these requirements
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fingernail scrapings‚ building materials‚ glass fragments‚ feathers‚ paper fibers‚ animal and human hairs‚ plant and vegetable fibers‚ blood and other body fluids‚ tar or asphalt‚ vegetable oils and fats‚ dust‚ cosmetic‚ and other airborne particles‚ textile fibers‚ soils and mineral grains‚ and explosive residues. In the following main forms of trace evidence is that most forensic scientist; center on such as fiber‚ hair‚ glass‚ condom‚ shoe and tire impressions will be covered and discussed
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Natural fibers have become new alternative materials that can replace petroleum-based plastic‚ either alone or combined with another material‚ to produce greener composite materials. One of the most important natural fibers is pineapple peel fiber. Pineapple peel fiber which have high content of cellulose‚ low density‚ abundance and low cost‚ have the potential for polymer reinforcement. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of corn starch film reinforced with Pineapple Peel fiber. Testing
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This study was to evaluate the effects of the variation in concentrations of urea used in retting on the properties of kenaf fibres. The experiment was conducted with four varieties of Kenaf plant namely: Cuba-108‚ Tianung-2‚ Ifeken-Di-400 and Ifeken 400. Two kenaf stems of each of the four varieties were tied (bundled) together and soaked in an improvised retting tank containing urea solutions at 1 and 2% concentrations and control (without urea). The properties of retting liquor were assessed
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Introduction The draw frame in a textile mill is unavoidable in yarn spinning as fibers need to be kept side by side termed as parallelization of fibers in textile technology. This is done as we see that most of the fibers at carding stage are so fast that there is little or no fiber parallelization. Even though modern carding machines have using the auto leveler still there can be some unevenness along the slivers. These two issues will affect the quality of the yarn. The draw frame machine is
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