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Examining the Potential for Bacterial Build-up on Apparel Fabrics with Repeated Use - A Laboratory Study
DownloadSpring 2022
When clothing is worn multiple times by a consumer, a build-up of oily soils, dirt, odours, and bacteria can transfer from the wearer to the garment. The bacteria that have been transferred to the garment may result in unwanted odours. Over time, this accumulation of bacteria may cause persistent...
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Integrating Product Stewardship into the Clothing and Textile Industry: A New Zealand Case Study
DownloadFall 2021
The clothing and textile industry has become one of the world’s greatest polluters as tremendous volumes of clothing are produced, used, and disposed of at alarming rates. The amount of resources, both renewable and non-renewable, required to continue at the current rate of consumption, along...
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Spring 2019
Raw denim jeans are an emerging trend where a unique pattern of fading is created as the jeans mold to the wearer’s body. Raw denim differs from traditional denim as it has not been treated or washed before being sold to consumers. Brand new raw denim has been suggested to be worn continuously...
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Spring 2018
Body odour consists of different compounds that interact in various ways with textile materials due to differences in their chemical properties. Clothing made from hydrophilic fibres (e.g., cotton) can be more easily laundered, and odorants more effectively removed than those made from...
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Spring 2018
Wetness perceptions in socks are an aspect of comfort. A bench scale measurement technique -- Algorithmic Image Analysis (AIA) -- to assess the liquid moisture distribution in sock fabrics, and relate them to wetness perceptions, is developed in this thesis. In AIA, the measurement of spread...
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Textile Fibre Fragments in Marine Environments and their Interaction with Suspended Hydrocarbons
DownloadSpring 2023
Pollution by microplastics is one of the biggest current environmental problems, due to the great amount of plastic waste that is used worldwide, as well as the threat they represent to fauna that might ingest them, particularly in aquatic environments. One of the main sources of microplastics,...