Textiles
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- Best Management Practices for Pollution Prevention in the Textile Industry
- Technical manual for best management practices for the prevention of pollution in the textile industry. From the US Environmental Protection Agency. Document of 443 pages. [PDF]
- 3802
- Brominated Fire Retardants and Endocrine Disruption
- Scientific article published in Pure and Applied Chemistry, investigating the potential hazard for the environment posed by the increasing use of brominated fire retardants in textiles and polymers. Authors: Joseph G. Vos and others. [PDF]
- 3803
- Clean Technologies in U.S. Industries: Focus on Textiles
- Brief overview of the US textile industry, with an emphasis on efforts to incorporate pollution prevention and clean technologies into its manufacturing operations.
- 3804
- Design for the Environment. Part I
- Title page of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, containing disclaimer, acknowledgments and index. [PDF]
- 3805
- Design for the Environment. Part II
- Acronyms and abbreviations in the Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes. [PDF]
- 3806
- Design for the Environment. Part III
- Introduction to and executive summary of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes. [PDF]
- 3807
- Design for the Environment. Part XV
- Appendix A to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, discusing the physical nature of specific chemicals used in dry and machine wet-cleaning operations. [PDF]
- 3808
- Design for the Environment. Part XVI
- Appendix B to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, providing further background on the development of hazard profiles and determination of the concern concentration. [PDF]
- 3809
- Design for the Environment. Part XVII
- Appendix C to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, reviewing the available human health hazard data for each chemical and process associated with commercial clothes cleaning. [PDF]
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- Design for the Environment. Part XVIII
- Appendix D to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, presenting dose-response assessments for dry-cleaning and machine wet-cleaning chemicals. [PDF]
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- Design for the Environment. Part XVIIII
- Appendix E to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, containing release and exposure methodology and data. [PDF]
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- Design for the Environment. Part XX
- Appendix F to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Technologies Substitute Assessment for professional fabricare processes, providing a summary of external technical peer reviews. [PDF]
- 3813
- Ecotextiles: The Way Forward for Sustainable Development in Textiles
- Collection of 23 papers from the Ecotextile 2004 Conference held at the University of Bolton, exploring recycling and the use of waste as raw materials in the textile and carpet industries. Edited by M. Miraftab and A.R. Horrocks.
- 3814
- Environmental Audit and Introduction of Multiple Cleaner Production Measures: Goulburn Wool Scour
- Abstract of an article about the efforts of the Goulburn Wool Scour Company invested in cleaner production technologies, using information technology to measure, monitor and report on environmental performance. Full article available upon registration.
- 3815
- Enzymatic Bleach Cleanup in Cotton Dyeing
- Case study of the Dutch Institute for Applied Environmental Economics (TME), describing the technique of using enzymes (Terminox Ultra) to replace chemical agents in bleach neutralization prior to the dyeing of cotton fabrics.
- 3816
- Industry Overview of Textile Manufacturing
- Article about possible hazardous wastes produced during dyeing and finishing processes in the textile and floor covering industries.
- 3817
- Preliminary Industry Characterization: Fabric Printing, Coating and Dyeing
- National emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for the textile fabric printing, dyeing and coating source category, as they are currently being developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency. [PDF]
- 3818
- A Buyers' Guide to Enzymes
- Technical buying guide to facilitate the purchasing selection process of enzyme products for industrial processes. Introduction to enzyme technology, properties, certification, handling and safety issues. From the Enzyme Development Corp. [PDF]
- 3819
- Biosynthesis of Enzymes by Aspergillus Niger IBT-90 and an Evaluation of Their Application in Textile Technologies
- Technical paper describing the conditions for biosynthesis of the Aspergillus Niger IBT-90 enzyme by a mathematical method of factorial planning and gradiant optimization. Authors: Rita Pyc and others. [PDF]
- 3820
- Enzymatic Treatment of Viscose Fibres Based Woven Fabric
- Technical paper, presenting the results of various studies concerning the estimation of the effect of enzymatic treatment on the changes in molecular and morphological structure of viscose woven fabrics. Authors: Danuta Chiechanska and others. [PDF]