Textiles / chemicals
Key sustainability regulation, legislation and frameworks
The textiles and chemicals industries also face pressure to improve the sustainability of their material usage throughout its lifecycle:
Best Available Techniques (BAT) are technologies approved by legislators or regulators for meeting output standards for a particular process, such as pollutant abatement. Initially an EU law, the UK is currently drawing up plans to establish its own BATs. The first 4 industry sectors to establish BAT consideration groups include the textiles industry and waste gas treatment in the chemicals sector.
