Northern Ireland
environmental management toolkit
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Pollution prevention guidelines:
Textiles and clothing PPGs
Environmental impacts of textiles and clothing businesses
If you manufacture textiles and clothing, your business can have
a number of impacts on the environment, for example:
- air emissions causing air pollution from
the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), inert gases from
laser cutting and dust from finishing operations
- land contamination from the release of
pesticides and other chemicals from poorly managed storage
areas
- noise pollution from plant and machinery
- waste disposal of packaging, contaminated
sawdust, fur trimmings and fleshings, and contaminated chemicals
containers
- water discharges of water containing grease,
dyes and pigments, pesticides, sugars, sodium chloride and sodium
sulphate.