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ClearRecent Advances in the Remediation of Textile-Dye-Containing Wastewater: Prioritizing Human Health and Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
This review examines how the textile industry is a major source of wastewater containing harmful dyes and chemicals that threaten water quality and human health. It evaluates sustainable treatment approaches including bio-adsorbents, membrane technology, and advanced oxidation processes for cleaning textile wastewater and recovering useful materials.
A Review on Textile and Clothing Industry Impacts on The Environment
This review examines how textile and clothing industry operations — including dyeing, finishing, and synthetic fiber production — contribute to water, air, and soil pollution, documenting the downstream effects on aquatic organisms, human health, and plants, and evaluating mitigation approaches across the industry's environmental impact categories.
Avaliação dos Impactos Ambientais nos Solos e Cursos D’água Resultantes do Descarte Inadequado de Resíduos Têxteis
This review examines the environmental impacts on soils and water bodies resulting from improper disposal of textile industry waste, both liquid effluents and solid residues. Researchers analyzed contamination pathways, pollutant types, and the severity of impacts given the textile industry's intensive water use and significant pollutant release into aquatic environments.
Microcontaminants and microplastics in water from the textile sector: a review and a database of physicochemical properties, use in the textile process, and ecotoxicity data for detected chemicals
This review tracks microcontaminants and microplastics from textile manufacturing through wastewater treatment and into rivers, identifying over 500 chemical compounds released during the textile production process. Many of these chemicals are classified as contaminants of environmental concern, and microplastic fibers from textiles are among the most common types found in waterways.
Evaluating the environmental impacts of textile and fashion industries
This review evaluated the environmental impacts of the global textile and fashion industries, finding that resource overconsumption, water pollution, synthetic fiber microplastic release, and vast waste generation make these sectors major drivers of ecosystem degradation.
Sustainable Textile Industry: An Overview
This review examines the environmental sustainability challenges of the textile industry, covering chemical pollution, high water and energy consumption, and solid waste generation at every production stage, while discussing strategies such as sustainable materials, cleaner processing, and circular economy approaches.
Microplastic emissions in textile wet processing: Progress, challenges, and mitigation strategies
This review examines how textile wet processing, including dyeing and finishing operations, contributes to microplastic emissions that are more substantial in volume and chemically diverse than those from domestic laundry. Researchers found that mechanical forces, water, and chemical treatments during industrial processing release significant quantities of synthetic microfibers into wastewater. The study explores mitigation strategies including bioengineered materials, improved textile design, surface coatings, and enhanced filtration technologies.
Microfibres from Textile Industry Effluents
Researchers reviewed the fate of microfibres released from textile industry effluents, finding that conventional wastewater treatment is insufficient to fully remove fibres, which then enter receiving waterways and contribute to environmental microplastic loads.
Sustainability Challenges of the Textile Industry
This review examines the environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges facing the global textile industry, including high water consumption, chemical pollution, labor exploitation, and the compounding effects of fast fashion on waste generation and resource depletion. The authors argue that addressing these interconnected challenges requires a multidimensional approach spanning supply chain transparency, regulatory reform, and shifts in consumer behavior.
Toxic Chemicals in Textiles and the Role of Microplastic Fibres as a Source and Vector for Chemicals to the Environment
This review examines how the chemical-intensive textile industry releases toxic substances throughout the product lifecycle, and critically evaluates the contested role of microplastic fibers as vectors for transporting chemical contaminants to biota and the broader environment.
Current trends in textile wastewater treatment—bibliometric review
Researchers analyzed 30 years of scientific publications on textile wastewater treatment and found that research interest has steadily grown, with nanomaterial-based adsorbents, membranes, and advanced filtration techniques emerging as the most promising future directions for removing dyes and pollutants from textile factory effluent. This matters because the textile industry is a major source of chemical pollution in waterways globally.
A critical review on environmental pollution caused by the textile industry
This review examines how the textile industry contributes to environmental pollution, including the release of microplastics from synthetic fibers during washing. The study highlights that non-biodegradable materials like polyester, nylon, and acrylic shed microplastic fibers that enter water systems, potentially harming marine organisms and entering the human food chain.
A Critical Review on Environmental Pollution Causes by Textile Industry
This review covers environmental pollution caused by the textile industry, including air, water, and soil contamination from synthetic fiber production and dyeing processes, touching on microplastic shedding from synthetic fabrics as one of several pollution pathways. While relevant to microplastics as a contributing industry, the paper is a broad environmental overview rather than a focused microplastics study.
Environmental Impact of Textile Materials: Challenges in Fiber–Dye Chemistry and Implication of Microbial Biodegradation
This review examines how the textile industry contributes to environmental pollution through both chemical dye waste and microplastic fiber release. Synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon shed non-biodegradable microfibers during manufacturing and washing, while the dyeing process generates contaminated wastewater. The paper highlights microbial biodegradation as a promising and cost-effective approach to breaking down both textile waste and the microplastics it produces.
Wastewater treatment plant effluent and microfiber pollution: focus on industry-specific wastewater
Researchers examined microfiber pollution from wastewater treatment plant effluent, finding that industry-specific wastewater from textile operations released significantly higher concentrations of synthetic microfibers compared to municipal sources.
Detrimental Effects of Industrial Wastewater on the Environment and Health
This review examines how industrial wastewater discharged into the environment harms ecosystems and human health. Untreated wastewater from industries carries heavy metals, synthetic chemicals, and plastics that contaminate drinking water sources and accumulate in food chains. The authors argue that stronger enforcement of wastewater treatment standards is urgently needed.
Microfibres Release from Textile Industry Wastewater Effluents Are Underestimated: Mitigation Actions That Need to Be Prioritised
This review highlights that the release of tiny fibers from textile manufacturing wastewater is likely far greater than current estimates suggest, making it a major underrecognized source of microplastic pollution. Researchers found that existing wastewater treatment processes capture many fibers but still release significant quantities into the environment. The study calls for prioritizing better filtration technologies and upstream interventions in the textile industry to reduce fiber shedding.
Role of Textile Industries in Microfiber Pollution
This review examines the role of textile industries in generating microfiber pollution, tracing microfiber release during fabric production, consumer use, laundering, and end-of-life disposal as synthetic textile demand grows with fast fashion. The review documents pathways by which textile microfibers enter freshwater and marine environments and accumulate in aquatic biota, linking industry growth trends to escalating environmental microfiber loads.
Pollution characteristics and fate of microfibers in the wastewater from textile dyeing wastewater treatment plant
Researchers found that a textile industry wastewater treatment plant achieved 95.1% removal of microfibers, reducing concentrations from 334.1 items/litre in influent to 16.3 items/litre in final effluent, yet still released 4.89 x 10^8 microfibers into receiving waters daily due to the enormous treatment volume.
Elimination of Microplastics from Textile Industry Wastewater Using Various Treatment Technologies
This review discusses various treatment technologies for removing microplastics from textile industry wastewater, including biotechnological strategies, photodegradation, thermal-oxidative degradation, and Fenton-like systems. The study highlights that synthetic fibers from the textile industry are a major source of microplastic pollution and examines the effectiveness of different approaches for addressing this growing environmental challenge.
Addressing the Impacts of Textile Industries on Environment and Socio- Economic Condition of Bank Town and Baraigram Area: a Management Perspective
Not a microplastics paper — this study documents the environmental and public health impacts of textile industry effluents on communities and waterways near factories in Bangladesh, focusing on toxic chemical discharge, worker health risks, and the inadequate use of wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Synthetic microfibers: Pollution toxicity and remediation
Researchers reviewed the sources, transport pathways, ecological impacts, and remediation approaches for synthetic microfiber pollution originating from domestic washing machines. The study highlights that urban laundry wastewater is a major contributor to microfiber pollution entering aquatic and terrestrial environments, with potential effects on the food chain and human health.
Examining the Importance of Pretreatment to Capture and Analyze Microfibers from Textile Wastewater
Researchers examined the importance of pretreatment steps for capturing and analyzing microfibers released from the textile industry during wet processing steps such as dyeing, rinsing, softening, and finishing, identifying inorganic compounds alongside synthetic fibers as key wastewater contaminants.
Environmental contamination by microplastics originating from textiles: Emission, transport, fate and toxicity
This review examines how synthetic textiles release fibrous microplastics into the environment through laundering, wear, and disposal. Researchers traced the journey of textile-derived microplastics from washing machines through wastewater treatment plants and into waterways, soils, and the atmosphere. The study highlights that textile fibers are among the most common types of microplastics found in the environment and calls for better mitigation strategies at every stage of the textile lifecycle.