Environmental Impacts Of Textile Industry In Sri Lanka

Abstract

In present consumers are becoming more aware of protecting the environment because of the generating the waste through the industries have a higher impact of polluting the environment. Therefore the companies use sustainable methods to prevent pollution by promoting eco-labels with their products and managing the generated waste. Clothing is an integral part of our lives, and the increment of establishing textile industries has a higher rate than the past in Asian countries. Sri Lanka has only the internal market during the 1960s. Nowadays it grows 40% of total export in here. So that each and every industry should concern about the disposal methods for greening textile industry, this paper briefly explains the product cycle, from the raw material through the design, production, and logistics up to disposal and focus on the waste generation types and suggestions to reduce for a sustainable world.