Application of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tool in the treatment process of effluents in a laundry of jeans

Abstract

The sustainability theme in the textile industry wins force more and more, through the adoption of practices and tools of environmental administration as the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The present study had as objective the application of the tool of LCA in the Station of Treatment of Effluents (STE) in a Laundry of Improvement of Jeans (LIJ) and to compare the environmental and social damages related to the Industrial Effluents (IE) generated after the improvement of the pieces. Through technical visits and reports made available by the organization, the Inventory of Cycle of Life (ICL) was elaborated and after the use of the software SimaPro, was verified that the use of inorganic chemical products, they present the main ones pollutant in the categories of the study, with impacts above 90%. The electric power presented significant impacts, what suggests the adoption of alternatives as the reduction of the time of operation of the equipments and methods for gravity.