Sustainable Textile Production in the Developing Countries: Major Challenges or Concerns and Their Possible Solutions

Sustainable textile production has become a major concern in developing countries due to its huge contribution to environmental pollution. The textile industry continuously produces materials like cloths, bags, geotextiles, nets, rugs, etc. and the use of such material results presence of pollutants in the environment as heavy metals, soda, acids, dyes, aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic substances, which result in water pollution, soil pollution, greenhouse gas emission, etc. To minimize such hazardous effects, presently this industry mainly focuses on the development of sustainable products. Some important components which are mainly focused on achieving sustainability are the use of suitable raw material (ecodesign), eco-friendly methods of production and packaging, life cycle assessment (LCA) of outcome and possible recyclability of used material/products, corporate policy and environmental management system (EMS), innovation in the business model. In developing countries new business model introduced in the textile industry, 3R’s model: reduce, reuse, repair, which aims towards sustainability, includes less waste generation, environmentally friendly, enzymatic textile processing and storage and supply chain management. This chapter focused on the key factors involved in the production of sustainable textile products in developing countries.