In the last two decades, textile processing has become increasingly concerned to achieve and demonstrate sound environmental performance by controlling the effect of their activities, products and processes taking into consideration its environmental policies and objectives. Textile industry plays a major role in this eco awareness programme. Textile ecology can be broadly classified in three main categories ecology of processing. Ecology in the waste human ecology it is expected of textile industry, particularly the processing sector, to strictly adhere to the ecological restrictions from the cultivation of crop to finished product which includes waste management techniques. The awareness of the environmental damage caused by textile production has provoked a different response from the textile industry. Textile processing sectors are facing challenging conditions in the field of quality and productivity, due to globalization of the world market. The guidelines for the textile processing industries by the pollution control boards create concern over the environment-friendliness of the processes. This in turn makes it essential for innovations and changes in the processes. Biotechnology is one such field that is changing the conventional processing to eco friendly processing of the textiles.
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