Open AccessA CASE STUDY FOR WATER FOOTPRINT ASSESSMENT OF A DENIM PRODUCT
Author(s) -
Vildan Sülar,
B. Soy,
K. Dindar Yagci
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tex teh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2068-9101
DOI - 10.35530/tt.2021.55
Subject(s) - denim , carbon footprint , water use , context (archaeology) , wastewater , business , consumption (sociology) , sustainability , raw water , life cycle assessment , environmental science , natural resource economics , production (economics) , environmental engineering , greenhouse gas , economics , ecology , paleontology , social science , macroeconomics , sociology , political science , law , biology
The awareness of the fact that the leading cause of the bad environmental conditions in our world isthe human factor, has been increasing in recent years. This awareness enables people, companies, andorganizations to decrease water consumption, to decrease carbon emission, to decrease using harmfulchemicals, consequently people who are aware of global warming and depletion of resources are taking actionsto save our planet for a sustainable life. Textile is one of the big sectors affecting the environmental pollution ina very bad way. For that reason, the present water footprint research was conducted on textiles and a denimcompany was especially chosen to examine the water footprint because of denim sector’s being one of the biggestpolluters and wasting water in a huge amount in the textile industry.Firstly, the limits of the research were obtained as finishing operations under the scope of water footprint. Theproduction steps and wastewater occurring points were obtained carefully for different denim finishingprocesses. After that stage, personal water consumption during denim apparel production was examined indetail. To create a good inventory analysis, many meetings were performed, and a survey was prepared to collectthe data about wastewater of the company. By the help of this water footprint evaluation, the processes thatcreate the most wastewater and the distribution of water footprint according to processes and other sources thatcause water consumption were determined for one pair of denim trouser accepted as a functional unit in thecontext of the research.