Environmental Performance Evaluation Based on Water Footprint and Carbon Footprint - A Case Study on Polyester Flannel Fabric Dyeing and Printing

Abstract:

In order to mitigate water scarcity and pollution as well as climate change, China government acted several environmental action plans on the industrial production in recent five years. Textile printing and dyeing enterprises are the main governance object and they carried out a series of energy/water conversation and emission/pollution reduction projects and measures. In order to evaluate the environmental performance of the projects, we compared Water footprint and Carbon footprint of unit Polyester Flannel dyeing and printing fabric in an enterprise (which conducted the environmental project from 2012 to 2013) respectively in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The results show that both Water footprint and Carbon footprint decreased significantly after the environmental project.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 671)
• Pages: 431-437
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.671.431
• Online since: November 2015
• Authors: Li Zhu Chen, Lu Lu Xu, Xue Mei Ding*
• Keywords: Carbon Footprint, Dyeing, Environmental Performance Evaluation, Polyester Flannel Fabric, Printing, Water Footprint

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