A study on analysing hazardous cotton willow waste and characterisation of eco-friendly non woven product Dr. Aishwariya S.*, Dr. Amsamani S.** *Assistant Professor, Department of Textiles and Clothing, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India **Professor and Head, Department of Textiles and Clothing, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India Online published on 9 February, 2018. Abstract Environmental awareness has become the quintessential concept that every industry is willing to learn and implement. Textile industry is evolving into a giant multidimensional sector with a huge volume of export and import growing every day. Sustainability being the key word in the current scenario, the industry has shifted its paradigm to eco-friendly production. Among the various sectors, spinning is one of the very promising sectors of Indian Textile Industry. The process involves cleaning and combing of raw cotton. The resultant continuous filament obtained by twisting the cleaned fibers is called a yarn, which will be the raw material to make any textile material. In this protocol of steps involved in fabric production, Spinning is one the basic and significant step and the yarn production expels different types of cotton waste as a result of cleaning. Majority of the wastes are used for making non-wovens. But the repeated cleaning leaves a final trash called ‘willow waste’. This less explored organic waste was chosen for the study and up-cycled into a non woven textile and the properties were tested. The developed wet wipe was found to be a good alternative to synthetic polypropylene sheets and OMMC test suggested the moisture absorption property is good. The flushability test which enables to give an understanding about the disintegration nature of the wipe when flushed in the toilets was conducted on the sample which suggested the product to be a good recommendation for an organic wipe. Top Keywords Willow Waste, Textile Recycling, Sustainable Products, Cotton Waste. Top |