Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33765/thate.14.4.1
QUANTIFICATION OF SHEDDING PROPENSITY OF POLYESTER FABRICS IN THE WASHING PROCESS
Tanja Pušić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6727-8344
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb, Croatia
*
Mirjana Čurlin
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Šaravanja
orcid.org/0000-0002-5558-4694
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb, Croatia
Kristina Šimić
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivona Vidić Štrac
; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Nino Dimitrov
orcid.org/0000-0003-4016-6307
; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Global microplastic (MP) pollution from primary and secondary sources is partly caused by the growing trend towards the use of plastics. One of the most important factors for the persistence of MP in the environment is their high resistance to degradation. The washing process has been identified as a risk and source of various pollutants in wastewater and numerous studies have been published. This study focuses on three different polyester fabrics: woven, knitted and double-faced plush fabrics, which were washed under standard conditions with the reference detergent ECE A at 60 °C for 40 min. Different methods were used to quantify the released fragments in a 5- and 10-cycle wash, to analyse the samples gravimetrically and to characterise the wastewaters by physicochemical parameters and filter cake. The results proved that the structure of polyester fabrics plays a role in shedding, although most fragments were released from all polyester fabrics in the first washing cycles.
Keywords
washing; polyester; shedding; fragments; wastewaters
Hrčak ID:
320790
URI
Publication date:
19.9.2024.
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