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Pineapple Leaf Fibre—A Sustainable Luxury and Industrial Textiles

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Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a popular and one of the delicious fruit. Pineapple plant is mainly cultivated for its fruit. Since it is perennial crop, the plant is of no use after harvesting of the fruit. These pineapple leaves generate huge unutilized biomass and cause agricultural waste. In this approach, more emphasis has been provided to explore different possibilities of fibre extraction and convert it into value-added products. These products are mainly pineapple leaf fibre-based textiles for fashion and other important industrial applications. The textile industries involved mainly mini and cottage industries to develop these high-end pineapple leaf fibre-based textile products. The economics of the products depends on the innovative product design and newer applications of such pineapple leaf fibres. Overall, this chapter covers the sustainable utilization of the by-product generated during the process of fibre extraction. Potential uses and development of different industrial textiles, medical textiles, fashion textiles, pulp and paper, biofertilizer have been covered out of this novel sustainable pineapple leaf fibre.

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  1. Mechanical Processing Division, National Institute of Research on Jute & Allied Fibre Technology, ICAR, 12 Regent Park, Kolkata, 700040, India

    Sanjoy Debnath

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  1. Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury, Malmö University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Miguel Angel Gardetti

  2. Eco-design Consultant, Global Sustainability Services, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

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Debnath, S. (2016). Pineapple Leaf Fibre—A Sustainable Luxury and Industrial Textiles. In: Gardetti, M., Muthu, S. (eds) Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion. Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-742-0_3

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