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Sustainable Chemicals: A Model for Practical Substitution

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The textile industry sees currently a fast development of legal and voluntary restrictions of chemicals content in textile products. However, the on-going phase-out work focuses on evaluating the environmental and health aspects of chemicals. The technical performance in the end application for the chemical does not receive the same attention. In addition, many research projects committed to evaluating hazardous substances and their possible alternatives also neglects the technical performance. The technical performance is left to the companies to evaluate. This may lead to inefficiency in the substitution process and also have the consequence that companies never dare to take the step to practical substitution, at least not in a proactive way. This chapter presents a model for practical substitution, developed and evaluated in several case studies, whereof two in the textile field: water and soil repellent textile coating materials and flame retarded textiles. From the general lessons learnt, an improved substitution methodology with widespread applicability has been defined.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Numbers.

  2. 2.

    http://www.enfiro.eu/, http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/56829_en.html.

  3. 3.

    http://supfes.eu/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.enfiro.eu/, http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/56829_en.html.

  5. 5.

    http://supfes.eu/.

  6. 6.

    The term “long-chain PFAS” has been defined by OECD (2013) as:

    1. i.

      PFCAs with 7 and more perfluoroalkyl carbons, such as PFOA (with 8 carbons or C8 PFCA) and PFNA (with 9 carbons or C9 PFCA);

    2. ii.

      PFSAs with 6 and more perfluoroalkyl carbons, such as PFHxS (with 6 perfluoroalkyl carbons, or C6 PFSA) and PFOS (with 8 perfluoroalkyl carbons or C8 PFSA); and

    3. iii.

      Substances that have the potential to degrade to long-chain PFCAs or PFSAs, i.e. precursors such as PASF- and fluorotelomer-based compounds.

  7. 7.

    http://www.enfiro.eu/, http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/56829_en.html.

  8. 8.

    Additive means that the flame retardant is only physically bound to the flame retardant material, unlike the reactive flame retardants that are chemically bound.

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Jönsson, C., Posner, S., Roos, S. (2018). Sustainable Chemicals: A Model for Practical Substitution. In: Muthu, S. (eds) Detox Fashion. Textile Science and Clothing Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4876-0_1

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