The edited papers which comprise this book were presented at the international conference, Ecotextile ’98, which was organised jointly by Bolton Institute and the British Textile Technology Group.
OEKO-TEX LABELLING OF TEXTILES Erich Zippel THE CONCEPTS OF
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABELLING Textile industry and
environment The textile and clothing industry is a very important field of industry.
It produces not only the second skin - clothing - for about 7 ... Zealand, but also
from Western Europe and South America. Main synthetic fibre production is
concentrated in USA, Western Europe and Taiwan with increasing shares of
Indonesia and South America.
This chapter describes the origins of sustainable development: the salient trends
and events that mark the development of the concept. It also presents the
important models and principles of sustainability that writers and scientists have ...
