Carbon Footprint Assessment of Textile Industry

Abstract

Global warming and climate change have recently risen to the forefront of the international community's concerns. Calculating one's carbon footprint (CFP) is an important first step in reducing emissions in a quantitative way since it shows how individuals, organizations, nations, and the entire planet respond to global warming. A person, organization, event, or product's carbon footprint is a measurement of their overall GHG emissions, which are expressed as a carbon dioxide equivalent. To understand how much the company contributes to global warming and to find measures to lessen that contribution, it is essential to calculate its carbon footprint. Finding solutions to lessen the company's impact on global warming and learning about the possibility for energy saving potential it is necessary to assess the company's carbon footprint. Additionally, customers are showing an increasing amount of interest in openness on the environmental effects of the companies and products they use. The idea of a carbon footprint, its importance, the effects it has on the environment, and carbon management for the textile sector are all covered in this paper. CFP reduction can be accomplished by making investments in clean, low-carbon technologies such as renewable energy sources, energy efficient equipment, employee awareness, and others. In this study carbon footprint assessment is carried out of Baldev Textile Mills Pvt. Ltd. Located in Hatkanangale, India. This study also suggests further carbon footprint reduction methods for the industry.