The garment industry exemplifies the challenges of global manufacturing: low wages, “flexible” contracts (or no contracts), and poor working conditions. Informal garment and textile workers, a huge workforce in some countries, are often invisible — especially those who work in their homes.
Q. What is supply chain in textile industry?
Manage the flow of goods and services through the supply chain network and it is mainly related to logistics. For this reason, logistic planning is one of the key focus. In supply chain management, the management of resources in every stage of manufacturing.
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Q. What problems are encouraged in textile industry?
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES.
- 1)Shortage in supply of raw material.
- 2)Increase in cost of raw material.
- Cotton prices jumped to Rs 13,200 per quintal now from Rs 11,800 per quintal about a month ago.
- 3)Compliance: Environmental issue.
- 4) Infrastructure bottlenecks.
- 5) Impact of GST.
Q. What impact does the textiles industry have on the environment?
The various stages in textile manufacturing hurt the environment through the constant and relatively huge emissions of GHG, water withdrawal, the release of toxins into our ecosystem from pesticides and herbicides used in growing cotton, and many other effects.
Q. How much pollution does the textile industry cause?
The textile industry is one of the most pollutants releasing industries of the world. Surveys show that nearly five percent of all landfill space is consumed by textile waste. Besides, 20 percent of all fresh water pollution is made by textile treatment and dyeing.
Q. How do you handle the waste of textile industry?
To get rid of these huge amount of wastes, the only way is to recycle them. Recycling means converting wastes into reusable materials. The textile industry in particular, focuses on two major types of recycling: Pre-Consumer Recycling and Post-Consumer Recycling.
