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Textile Waste Management
Summary
This overview of textile waste management examines the global scale of the problem, with a focus on India's significant role in the textile industry and the environmental impacts of inadequate waste handling including microfiber release.
Globally, the textile industry is a major source of waste generation causing harmful impacts on the environment. India is a major player in the textile arena and can play a significant and exemplary role in textile waste management, textile waste reduction and promote a circular economy through a combination of actions and policy initiatives such as strengthening the textile recycling infrastructure, awareness generation for sustainable consumption, and policy interventions such as extended producer responsibility for textiles to regulate the sector.
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