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A Traceability Platform for Monitoring Environmental and Social Sustainability in the Textile and Clothing Value Chain: Towards a Digital Passport for T&C

Luis Alves
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Miguel Sá
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz
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Toni Alves
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Marcelo Alves
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João Oliveira
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Manuel Santos
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António Miguel Rosado Da Cruz
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Version 1 : Received: 8 November 2023 / Approved: 9 November 2023 / Online: 9 November 2023 (10:05:37 CET)

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Alves, L.; Sá, M.; Cruz, E.F.; Alves, T.; Alves, M.; Oliveira, J.; Santos, M.; Rosado da Cruz, A.M. A Traceability Platform for Monitoring Environmental and Social Sustainability in the Textile and Clothing Value Chain: Towards a Digital Passport for Textiles and Clothing. Sustainability 2024, 16, 82. Alves, L.; Sá, M.; Cruz, E.F.; Alves, T.; Alves, M.; Oliveira, J.; Santos, M.; Rosado da Cruz, A.M. A Traceability Platform for Monitoring Environmental and Social Sustainability in the Textile and Clothing Value Chain: Towards a Digital Passport for Textiles and Clothing. Sustainability 2024, 16, 82.

Abstract

Textile and clothing is one of the most important industrial sectors, not only due to the significant number of jobs generated, but also because it addresses one of the people’s fundamental needs (clothing). It is, however, a sector with a huge environmental impact, all over the world, and also an important social impact, especially in developing countries. Sustainability in the Textile & Clothing value chain is a known issue, concerning both environmental, and economical-social facets of sustainability. One way to improve sustainability in this sector is by measuring the environmental, economic and social impacts of value chain activities and, ultimately, computing an Environmental and Circular score for each batch of textile and clothing product, and an Economical and Social score for each involved firm, reflected in their products. The consumer will then have the opportunity and responsibility for selecting products with the least negative environmental, economical and social impact. This article presents the results of STVgoDigital project - PPS1, developed in Portugal with the aim of implementing the traceability of textile and clothing products, boosting sustainability in this sector, and preparing the ground for the implementation of the circular economy. More exactly, a blockchain-based textile and clothing value-chain traceability platform is presented, for tracing textile product lots and activities, along the value chain, classifying them with a score, which measures their environmental and social impact. The environmental, economic and social impact scores are based on a set of proposed indicators. The results are assessed through the presentation of a case study of a face towel (home textile) and a case study of a T-shirt (clothing).

Keywords

Textile and Clothing Value Chain; Blockchain-based Traceability Platform; Environmental and Social Indicators; Environmental and Social Impact Score; Sustainable and Cleaner Production

Subject

Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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