Chapter 12
An Overview of Sustainability of Textile
Wastewater Management in Textile Sectors
Punyasloka Pattnaik and G. S. Dangayach
12.1 Introduction
In India, the textile sector is one of the oldest sectors for revenue generation as well
as one of the most significant service providers. Most of the ancillary organizations
are directly or indirectly dependent on this sector in the form of raw materials or
semi-finished products, starting from the fashion industry to aerospace manufacturing organizations. Hence, the textile sector is the only sector where the production
rate is quite higher as compared with other leading sectors (annual report on Ministry
of Textiles 2017). Due to the availability of a sufficient quantity of raw materials and
higher consumption rate, the production rate has grown significantly in the last few
decades (Cohn 2000). With the increase in the production rate of textile products all
over the world, the textile effluents also proportionally increased, which directly
affect the soil, air, as well as water (Khan and Malik 2014). Nowadays, dyes are
seriously being used for the development of textile products through different
treatment techniques (Siddique et al. 2017). These chemicals are discharged to
drain water, rivers, and dumping yards or, most of the time, evaporated to the
open environment. These chemicals seriously affect human beings because of their
toxic nature. Therefore, a sustainable waste management system is needed to
improve the performance output of the sector. This may be brought through technology advancement, which in turn would reduce waste textile effluent generation
during the fabrication of textile products. Hence, in the present day, it is a challenging task for the policymakers, who need to define the waste collection procedure as
well as its uses in some other applications, simultaneously preparing a stringent
regulatory document to help the textile manufacturers (Fischedick et al. 2014).
Corsten et al. (2013) discussed sustainable solid waste management for municipality
solid waste on how to improve energy uses, reuse products and materials, and reduce
P. Pattnaik (*) · G. S. Dangayach
Department of Management Studies, MNIT Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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An Overview of Sustainability of Textile
Wastewater Management in Textile Sectors
Punyasloka Pattnaik and G. S. Dangayach
12.1 Introduction
In India, the textile sector is one of the oldest sectors for revenue generation as well
as one of the most significant service providers. Most of the ancillary organizations
are directly or indirectly dependent on this sector in the form of raw materials or
semi-finished products, starting from the fashion industry to aerospace manufacturing organizations. Hence, the textile sector is the only sector where the production
rate is quite higher as compared with other leading sectors (annual report on Ministry
of Textiles 2017). Due to the availability of a sufficient quantity of raw materials and
higher consumption rate, the production rate has grown significantly in the last few
decades (Cohn 2000). With the increase in the production rate of textile products all
over the world, the textile effluents also proportionally increased, which directly
affect the soil, air, as well as water (Khan and Malik 2014). Nowadays, dyes are
seriously being used for the development of textile products through different
treatment techniques (Siddique et al. 2017). These chemicals are discharged to
drain water, rivers, and dumping yards or, most of the time, evaporated to the
open environment. These chemicals seriously affect human beings because of their
toxic nature. Therefore, a sustainable waste management system is needed to
improve the performance output of the sector. This may be brought through technology advancement, which in turn would reduce waste textile effluent generation
during the fabrication of textile products. Hence, in the present day, it is a challenging task for the policymakers, who need to define the waste collection procedure as
well as its uses in some other applications, simultaneously preparing a stringent
regulatory document to help the textile manufacturers (Fischedick et al. 2014).
Corsten et al. (2013) discussed sustainable solid waste management for municipality
solid waste on how to improve energy uses, reuse products and materials, and reduce
P. Pattnaik (*) · G. S. Dangayach
Department of Management Studies, MNIT Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Singh et al. (eds.), Water Pollution and Management Practices,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8358-2_12
279