Waves of Waste The Textile Industry's Contribution to Ocean Pollution
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56778/rjslr.v1i3.189Keywords:
Textile industry, industrial pollution, preventative treatments, EnvironmentAbstract
The world's most polluting industry is the textile industry. in order for such industries to harm the ecology as well. Industries have an impact on biomes, which limits how well plants and animals can breathe. Apart from that, the water discharged by the textile factories contributes to water contamination. Dust, which causes respiratory issues, also affects the workers. The staff are required to adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOP). To reduce the impact of the hazards, management should enforce safety standards. By doing this, the environmental pollutants will be removed. Wastewater should be treated using cleaner technology that promotes long-term development in our environment so that the ecosystem may exist without having an impact on the conditions of the environment. This will preserve water for the environment's future. The textile industry need to maintain a focus on worker safety and waste management.
References
Sudha Babel and Meenaxi Tiwari, "Occupational health hazards in the textile industry", Asian journal of Home Science, Vol. 9, pp. 267-271, 2014.
Neelam Singh, "Safety and health issues in workers in clothing and textile industries", International journal of Home Science, Vol. 3, pp. 38-40, 2016.
Megha Bansal, Rajesh Kumar Yadhav, “Occupational health hazards and awareness of occupational safety among workers of textile dyeing industries in Jaipur”, International Journal of Environment, Science and Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 30-38, 2016.
McElwee,K., Courtney, C.A., Morishige, C., Donohue, M.JRivera-Vicente, A.,2012. A strategy for detecting derelict fishing gear at sea. Mar. Pollt. Bull. 65, 7-15. Mckinney, M.L., On predicting biotic homogenization: species-area patterns in marine biota. Globo.Ecol. Biogeogr. Lerr. 7, 297-301.
Rossi G., Barnoud J., Luca Monticelli L. (2014). Polystyrene Nanoparticles Perturb Lipid Membrances. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5; 241-246
Rothstein S.I., (1973). Plastic particle pollution of the surface of the Atlantic ocean: evidence from a seabird. Condor, 75, 344-345.
Reid, K., Forcada, J., 2005. Causes of offspring mortality in the Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazelle: the interaction of density dependence and ecosystem variability.
Xanthos, D., Walker, T.R., 2017. International policies to reduce plastic marine pollution from single-use plastics (plastic bags and microbeads): a review. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 118, 17-26
Holkar, C.R., Jadhav, A.J., Pinjari, D.V., Mahamuni, N.M., Pandit, A.B., 2016. A critical review on textile wastewater treatments: possible approaches.J.Environ. Manag. 182,351-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.090.
Samanta, K.K., Basak, S., Chattopadhyay, S.K., 2014. Muthu, S.S. (Ed), Roadmap to sustainable and Clothing, Textile science and Clothing Technology. Springer, Singapore, pp. 263-287.
Schoeberl, P., Brik, M., Braun, R., Fuchs, W., 2004. Treatment and recycling of textile waste water-case study and development of a recycling concept. Desalination 171, 173-183.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov.
Padmini D S and Venmathi A, “Unsafe work environment in garment industries”, Journal of environment research and development, Vol. 7, pp. 569-575, 2012.
Jimky Leilanie Lu, “Occupational hazards and illnesses of Filipino women workers in export processing zone”, International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics, Vol. 14, pp. 333-342, 2008.
Kassu Jilcha and Daniel Kitaw, “A literature review on global occupational safety and health practice and accidents severity”, International journal for quality research, Vol. 2, pp. 279-310, 2016.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 RADINKA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
