Working Report No. 24 2007 – EDIPTEX - Environmental assessment of textiles

EDIPTEX - Environmental assessment of textiles

4 Strategy for collection of data

The enterprises were asked to enter the relevant data for each process or production system in an Excel spreadsheet. Moreover, the enterprises were asked to state any inadequacies in the data and briefly describe the reason, as well as the assumptions applied for data collection and calculations.

The data collection was carried out in accordance with a checklist form in the following structure:

1. General information

2. Input

3. Output

1. General information includes process description:

- Where does the process begin and end?

- Which technology is used?

- Name and volume of reference product

- Validity period for data.

2. Input includes:

- Raw materials, components and auxiliary materials

- Transport

- Energy consumption.

3. Output includes:

- Coproducts (any material leaving the process with the reference product, and for which there is a positive financial value for the enterprise (opposite of waste))

- Emissions into air

- Discharges into water

- Discharges to soil

- Waste

- Transport of the reference product.