Developing Organic Fabric from Aquatic
Cellulosic Waste
Madhu Sharan and Sumi Haldar
1 Introduction
The textile industry across the globe is constantly striving for an innovated supply
chain to gain sustainable development in the entire sector. It is high time to reduce
the size of the environmental footprints made by this sector. This includes the development of sustainable and eco-friendly raw materials, less energy, intensive and
minimum polluting process sequences and technologies and so on. Cellulosic materials are the cheapest and most abundant renewable resource in nature. Natural cellulosic fibers are obtained from the stem, leaf or seeds of the plants and all have
numerous applications. There is an urgent need to manufacture a textile product
from the renewable resources such as plants/trees (bast and leaf fibers) produced by
ecologically sound manufacturing processes, transported and used with minimum
environmental burdens, and finally ending its life smoothly without any additional
environmental burdens (recyclable and biodegradable at the end of the life) [1].
India has a rich variety of wetland habitats due to varied topography and ecoclimatic regimes. Types of wetland plants are also remarkably diverse owing to
the large-scale variation in topography, huge climatic gradient across the country,
and due to the local variation in rainfall. All wetland plants have been grouped
under following broad categories that is free-floating hydrophytes (Eichhornia crassipes, Lemina perpusilla, Pistia stratiotes, etc.), suspended hydrophytes (Hydrilla
sp., Utricularia sp., etc.), submerged anchored hydrophytes (Aponogeton appendiculatus, Vallisneria sp., Potamogitum sp. etc.), anchored hydrophytes with floating
leaves (Nelumbo nucifera, Aponogeteus natans, etc.), anchored hydrophytes with
M. Sharan · S. Haldar (B)
Department of Clothing and Textiles, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
e-mail: sumihaldar924@yahoo.com
M. Sharan
e-mail: madhusharan@yahoo.co.in
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Cellulosic Waste
Madhu Sharan and Sumi Haldar
1 Introduction
The textile industry across the globe is constantly striving for an innovated supply
chain to gain sustainable development in the entire sector. It is high time to reduce
the size of the environmental footprints made by this sector. This includes the development of sustainable and eco-friendly raw materials, less energy, intensive and
minimum polluting process sequences and technologies and so on. Cellulosic materials are the cheapest and most abundant renewable resource in nature. Natural cellulosic fibers are obtained from the stem, leaf or seeds of the plants and all have
numerous applications. There is an urgent need to manufacture a textile product
from the renewable resources such as plants/trees (bast and leaf fibers) produced by
ecologically sound manufacturing processes, transported and used with minimum
environmental burdens, and finally ending its life smoothly without any additional
environmental burdens (recyclable and biodegradable at the end of the life) [1].
India has a rich variety of wetland habitats due to varied topography and ecoclimatic regimes. Types of wetland plants are also remarkably diverse owing to
the large-scale variation in topography, huge climatic gradient across the country,
and due to the local variation in rainfall. All wetland plants have been grouped
under following broad categories that is free-floating hydrophytes (Eichhornia crassipes, Lemina perpusilla, Pistia stratiotes, etc.), suspended hydrophytes (Hydrilla
sp., Utricularia sp., etc.), submerged anchored hydrophytes (Aponogeton appendiculatus, Vallisneria sp., Potamogitum sp. etc.), anchored hydrophytes with floating
leaves (Nelumbo nucifera, Aponogeteus natans, etc.), anchored hydrophytes with
M. Sharan · S. Haldar (B)
Department of Clothing and Textiles, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
e-mail: sumihaldar924@yahoo.com
M. Sharan
e-mail: madhusharan@yahoo.co.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. Majumdar et al. (eds.), Functional Textiles and Clothing 2020,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9376-5_13
169