Progress on Life Cycle Assessment in Textiles and Clothing

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Recent Progress on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Textile Industry: Applications for Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of Cotton and Its Derivatives.- A framework for life cycle inventory modelling of chemical substances in the footwear and apparel industry.- Life Cycle Assessment of the Renting of Leisurewear.- The environmental impact of textiles and clothing: a regional and a country approach.- Performing life cycle assessment at scale in the footwear industry.- Life cycle assessment of textile fibers in Brazil: a literature review.- The role of country specific gate to gate ecolabels: Case study for Sri Lankan clothing industry.- The role of Life Cycle Assessment in analyzing Circular Economy strategies in the clothing sector: a review.- LCA Studies on Regenerative Agriculture and Regenerative Textiles: Two Routes of Regenerative Cotton.