Dear Colleagues,

Presently, 7.6 billion people worldwide are engaged with textiles, and our lives cannot be separated from them. Over the past decade, significant attention has been paid to making the textiles sector cleaner and greener. Sustainability has increasingly been encouraged in almost all key stages of textile production, i.e., textile fibers [1], spinning process [2], weaving process [3], dyeing process [4], printing process [5], finishing process [6], composites [7], marketing [8], and so on. The high demand for sustainability in textiles production is reflected in policies, including the NYC Fashion Policies, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) regulations in the EU. It is important to explore how these goals can be achieved together.

Challenges: Though several research works have been completed, many challenging problems remain to be overcome, as follows:

• Use of artificial intelligence to check the authenticity of the sustainability claims of the textiles industry (SDG 12);
• Minimizing textile wastewater, and reaching minimal chemical and dye discharge (SDG  6);
• The development of biobased and biodegradable textiles from renewable feedstock (SDGs 12 and 15);
• No poverty, reaching gender equality, and reduced inequality in the textiles sector (SDGs 1, 5, 10, and 16);
• Sustainable heritage and culture and sustainable fashion (SDG 11, Target 4);
• Nontoxicity of chemicals used in the textile industry (SDGs 3 and 12);
• Textile-to-textile recycling or garment-to-garment recycling (SDG 12);
• Good health and well-being in the textile sector (SDG 3);
• The development of information management tools to check the sources and uses of raw materials (SDG 12);
• Life cycle assessments within the textile industry (SDG 12).

Thus, this Special Issue invites authors to address these new and innovative topics to fill the gaps in the research.

This Special Issue welcomes experts working in all sectors of the textile industry that are desperate for sustainable development. Innovations might include growing natural fibers, synthetic fiber manufacturing, yarns, fabric formation, wet processing, technical textiles, and management processes. These topics and more, related to sustainability in textiles, are warmly welcomed.

References

• Cellulose 2016, 23, 955-963, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-015-0830-9
• Sustainability 2022, 14, 9453, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159453
• Sustainability 2022, 14, 9439, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159439
• J. Nat. Fibers 2016, 13, 749-758, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15440478.2015.1137527
• Key Engg. Materials 2016, 671, 109-114, https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.671.109
• Coatings 2020, 10, 943, https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10100943
• J. of Polymer Science 2019, 2019, 8732520, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8732520
• Sustainability 2021, 13, 4238, https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084238

Dr. Hafeezullah Memon
Dr. Narcisa Vrinceanu
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• textiles
• polymers
• materials
• packaging