Waste Management in the Fashion and Textile Industries

Rajkishore Nayak is an Associate Professor with the School of Communication & Design (SCD) at RMIT Vietnam. His research interests include new materialism, sustainability in fashion and textiles; circular fashion; waste management; and ethical fashion. Dr. Nayak has published 15 books and more than 150 high-impact journal papers. He is working in collaboration with universities in Africa, Europe, USA and Asia. Dr. Nayak is currently an Editorial member of various journals, including the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, and Fashion and Textiles. He is also an active member in SDC, ITA and AFC. He has extensive publications in high impact journals as well as books and book chapters. Dr. Asis Patnaik is working as acting Head of Clothing and Textile Technology Department in Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville Campus, Cape Town, South Africa. He is actively involved in the teaching, research and development of textiles and technical textile-based materials suitable for manufacturing, automotive, medical, building and footwear industries. He has published more than 80 papers, books, book chapters and conference papers. He has also developed two technologies for filtration, building and automotive industries. He is a regular reviewer of engineering book proposals from the leading publishers, research funding proposal reviewer from various funding agencies, as well as examiner of PhD theses. He was the recipient of several international awards including Textile Institutes Outstanding Young Scientist Paper Award in 2008 and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual award by the CSIR, South Africa in 2013. He is a NRF (National Research Foundation) rated established researcher in South Africa. He is a voting member of the ASTM standardisation committee on Textiles (D13). He has supervised several PhD and Masters students and hosting two-post doctoral research fellows. Majority of his research works are funded by the industries and he has a track record of securing large industry funding for various projects.

• 1. Introduction to Fashion and Textile Waste2. Problems and Hazards of Textile and Fashion Waste3. Management of Spinning and Weaving Waste4. Management of Wastes in Garment Manufacturing5. Technologies for the Management of Waste Water Generated in Wet Processing6. Management of Air Quality7. Management of E-waste8. Packaging Waste and Its Management Technologies9. End of Life Clothes and their Management10. Organisations and Standards Relating to Waste Management11. Automotive Waste Management Technologies12. Management of Coated and Laminated Textile Wastes13. Management of Protective Clothing Waste14. Management of other Fashion Wastes15. Recycling of Plastics, Composite Materials16. Bioplastics and Bio Composites and their Recycling and Degradation Technologies