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Life Cycle Assesment of Clothing Process

Author Affiliations

  • 1Dept. of Textile Eng., College of Eng. and Architecture, University of Uludag Gorukle-Bursa TR-16059 TURKIYE

Res.J.chem.sci., Volume 2, Issue (2), Pages 87-89, February,18 (2012)

Abstract

Clothing process is thought to be the cleanest process among the textile manufacturing methods. In the present study the environmental impacts of clothing processes were investigated using Life Cycle Assessment Methodology. According to the results, sewing process was the main responsible of the almost all impact categories.

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