Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method

The current consumption of clothing and textile causes great environmental concerns in the society, especially textile waste. With increasing environmental awareness, textile industries have begun to consider environmental issues in their production. This study evaluated and prioritized the importan...

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Main Authors: Gbolarumi, Fadara Taiwo, Wong, Kuan Yew
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89795-6_12
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spelling my.utm.996512023-03-08T04:24:50Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99651/ Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method Gbolarumi, Fadara Taiwo Wong, Kuan Yew TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The current consumption of clothing and textile causes great environmental concerns in the society, especially textile waste. With increasing environmental awareness, textile industries have begun to consider environmental issues in their production. This study evaluated and prioritized the important environmental performance criteria related to textile industry. In this paper, a recently developed multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, namely Best-Worst Method (BWM) which can solve decision making problems based on limited pairwise comparisons, was used to evaluate the environmental performance criteria in textile industry in order to derive the weights of the criteria and priorities of the sub-criteria. This study used five environmental performance criteria and twenty sub-criteria selected from the literature and validated by experts. After that, the BWM calculated the importance of each criterion. The findings showed that raw material, chemical oxygen demand and fresh water are the most important criteria while fabric waste, methane and non-biodegradable material are the least crucial criteria. This research provided useful insights for stakeholders in textile industry so that they can benefit from the results to optimize their operations. 2022 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Gbolarumi, Fadara Taiwo and Wong, Kuan Yew (2022) Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method. In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2021), 10 - 11 June 2021, Delft, The Netherlands. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89795-6_12
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Gbolarumi, Fadara Taiwo
Wong, Kuan Yew
Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
description The current consumption of clothing and textile causes great environmental concerns in the society, especially textile waste. With increasing environmental awareness, textile industries have begun to consider environmental issues in their production. This study evaluated and prioritized the important environmental performance criteria related to textile industry. In this paper, a recently developed multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, namely Best-Worst Method (BWM) which can solve decision making problems based on limited pairwise comparisons, was used to evaluate the environmental performance criteria in textile industry in order to derive the weights of the criteria and priorities of the sub-criteria. This study used five environmental performance criteria and twenty sub-criteria selected from the literature and validated by experts. After that, the BWM calculated the importance of each criterion. The findings showed that raw material, chemical oxygen demand and fresh water are the most important criteria while fabric waste, methane and non-biodegradable material are the least crucial criteria. This research provided useful insights for stakeholders in textile industry so that they can benefit from the results to optimize their operations.
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author Gbolarumi, Fadara Taiwo
Wong, Kuan Yew
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Wong, Kuan Yew
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title Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
title_short Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
title_full Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
title_fullStr Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the Best-Worst Method
title_sort assessment of environmental performance criteria in textile industry using the best-worst method
publishDate 2022
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99651/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89795-6_12
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