Clean Technology is an upcoming technology which is growing in its importance. I think the good work done by environmentalists worldwide is doing well in raising the awareness of conserving our ecology. It is often said that textile industries are one of the primary contributors of the total hazardous wastes produced through sundry produces. The situation was that the industry had a lackadaisical approach towards these hazardous outputs as long as the profit margin is not affected. However I'm glad that increasingly people are getting environment conscious right from the floor-level worker to the decision making executives. All this has resulted in some interesting discoveries and progress which is really important. So by now I guess you might have got a gist of what lies ahead in this article.
As per the name goes clean technology is something which helps in getting clean industrial outputs which otherwise was giving hazardous wastes detrimental to the environment. I'm listing three of the objectives of clean technology:
- Reducing Pollution
- Recycling
- Energy saving
Lets see them in detail.
- Reducing Pollution: The usage of water which is one of the important constituents of any industrial product can be judiciously done. Through proper reutilization of contaminated water this can be done. Likewise acids and chemicals can be reutilized to give out fewer wastes. For eg Soft acids like mineral acid can be used in place of acetic acid which would help further in reducing wastes.
- Recycling: To continue with the point already discussed above there are many technologies in place like Membrane Bio-Reactor, Nano-Filtration,, Ultra-Filtration which are good clean-technologies. These technologies help in the transforming of hazardous wastes into usable form. Through Nano-Filtration dyes removed from concentrated salt solution can be made reusable; same is for water and salt environmental effects of textile industry.
- Energy saving: Energy is conserved by use of clean technologies. Salt, chemicals, Water are some of the products that are conserved which otherwise would have been contrary.
Clean technology processes help in the optimum usage in both woven as well as knit fabrics industries. As more and more industrialists are becoming aware of these technologies things are bound to change and together we can hope for a better ecology. There is nothing wrong in trying these technologies as gratitude towards nature. There is more in this series of articles to come for clean-technologies.