Addressing post-consumer textile waste in developing economies

Reusing pre-consumer textile waste

Background With the expansion of the fashion industry the quantity of industrial pre-consumer textile waste has increased. It is estimated that approximately 10-20% of textiles are wasted during garment manufacture [1]. Reusing pre-consumer textile waste within the fashion supply chain offers many environmental advantages, including: · Directing waste away from landfill and incinerators · Conse...

Quantifying and valuing post-consumer food waste in South Africa

Food waste is problematic on a number of levels; including the loss of a potentially valuable food source or resource for use in other processes; wasted resources and emissions in the food supply chain; and problems associated with the disposal of organic waste to landfill. We quantify the post-consumer food waste stream in South Africa, in order to bring attention to the magnitude of the probl...

Economic Planning in Developing Economies

This entry reviews planning models as applied to developing countries. Aggregative, sectoral and project appraisal techniques are discussed. It is seen that while there was signi…cant progress in the post-war period in devising sophisticated techniques, the ascendancy of market friendly reforms in the recent era has emphaized the use of dynamic and computable general equilibrium models. Many of...

Institute of Developing Economies

This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz’s (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first stylize the empirical regularities of multinational entry and sales activity and estimate the model’s...

Solid waste management from textile mills