Track: Sustainability

Abstract

Cleaner production (CP) approaches and technologies are top-tier tools to align with sustainable innovation policies and furthermore, governments of the developing countries have become mindful about sustainable strategies to prevent pollution in recent years. However, only a handful of organizations in textile industry in developing countries have embraced CP approaches throughout the years. Therefore, this paper has shortlisted 20 barriers among all using previous literature, expert opinion and assessment of the entire stakeholders chain from the perspective of textile industries operating in developing countries which fall under 4 major criteria: i) Technologic and Information barrier, ii) Economic and Financial barrier, iii) Market barrier, iv) Managerial barrier. Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) which is an excellent tool to deal with linguistic level of comparisons, has been used to rank these barriers to set spotlight on the most critical group of barriers. The outcome of this paper will act as spur to set sustainable strategies and goal against them while having limited resource. Finally, this paper stands out as it focuses on the proactive step to ease the application of CP approaches on textile industry which accompany high environmental expense in terms of dumping the untreated waste water into water bodies.

Keywords:

Cleaner Production, Pollution Prevention, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process, Textile Industry.