UET Lahore announces Textile Sustainability Working Group

Textile is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy but situation of textile sustainability in the country needs more joint efforts and therefore the UET Textile department has formed the Textile Sustainability Working Group, the university said in a press release.

The group was announced during the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Textile 2021 held last week. The virtual conference was attended by over 450 participants including foreign experts who shared technical knowledge and best practices for textile supply chain, textile machinery, textile process innovation, textile materials, textile digital inks, textile sustainability testing, textile recycling, brands, traceability and environmental impact of textile.

“Textile sustainability is a global challenge, and it needs coherent efforts from various stakeholders like universities, mills, textile chemical companies, testing companies, brands, associations and NGOs to collaborate in order to achieve the target. These efforts are needed not only to attract more international brands, more textile orders, more jobs but for the less usage of resources like good quality water, less wastewater discharge, less air emissions and environment protection of the country,” said the university on its website.

UET Textile department already has a Textile Sustainability Research Group which has been working on textile sustainability for the last ten years.

The university has already established the Textile Sustainability Working Group online platform and an onsite training conference room at the UET textile department with the support of the founding members. More than 70 mills and organisations have joined the group as members in the last four working days.

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