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Implementing Sustainable Thinking and Acting into Design- and Textile Education-A Holistic and Interdisciplinary Learning Model-Crimson Publishers

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Implementing Sustainable Thinkingand Acting into Design- and Textile Education-A Holistic and InterdisciplinaryLearning Model by Carolin Ermer* in Trends in Textile Engineering & FashionTechnology The textile and clothing industry in Germany is the second largest consumer goods industry after the food industry with an annual turnover of 27 billion Euros (see BMWI 2017). Germans buy an average of about 28kg of textiles per year and it gets more and more [1]. In the course of this development of the associated so- called "fast fashion", the clothing industry is increasingly becoming involved in innumerable ecological, economic and social grievances and disasters in the countries of manufacture. Such as, for example, the collapse of the Rana Plaza in 2013 in Bangladesh, which Killed over 1,000 people and injured more than 2,000 [2]. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) describes this event as "the worst ever industrial accident to hit the garment industry" (Ib...

Certain Properties of Needle Punched Nonwoven Fabrics Made from Silk and Wool Fibers-Crimson Publishers

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Certain Properties ofNeedle Punched Nonwoven Fabrics Made from Silk and Wool Fibers by Rajkumar Govindaraju* and Srinivasan Jagannathan in Trends in Textile Engineering &Fashion Technology Recycling is an important task in today's scenario to reduce land filling and raw material consumption which also helps in the effective utilization of the resources. Huge amount of waste is occurred in textile industries such as fibers, yarns and fabrics while converting one form of raw material into other form. Recently, these wastes are utilized for the development of non woven fabrics and composite materials which has high potential to utilize it in civil and automobile industries as insulating materials. https://crimsonpublishers.com/tteft/fulltext/TTEFT.000507.php For more open access journals in crimson publishers Please click  on link: https://crimsonpublishers.com For more articles on Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology Please click o...