Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

China’s State Council released a plan on September 20 in 2017 for the country’s second national census on pollution sources, with the results to be published in 2019. According to the overall requirements for the scheme of the Second China Pollution Source Census, information regarding the development situation of the textile and apparel industries and the status of pollutants production and discharge has been provided. The main objective of this project was to establish the accounting methods for pollutant emissions in the textile and apparel industries, which could be achieved by identifying the key nodes of the production and discharge processes, determining the influencing factors and the number of survey combinations, and measuring the average treatment efficiencies and actual operating rates of the pollution control facilities. This was a large-scale survey involving historical information of 355 enterprises from the Chinese Sewage Permit System and practical investigation of 156 enterprises from of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, and Guangdong Province. We complied a manual of production and discharge coefficients from textile and apparel industries, which included 307 pollution-producing coefficients, 195 end-removal efficiency coefficients and non-universal source accounting methods. This project laid the foundation for the Second China Pollution Source Census for the textile industry and provided valuable guidelines in industrial control and sustainable development across China. The census marks the fundamental work of the country’s environmental protection and economic and social sustainability. This work has important reference value and meaning for the development of the textile industry in the global south.