Air Pollution

According to the literature reviewed, emissions from textile processing (excluding boiler emissions) are:

• Oil mist and organic emissions produced when textile materials containing knitting and lubricating oils, platicizers, and other materials that can volatilize or be thermically degraded into volatile substances, are subjected to heat. Processes that can be sources of oil mist include tentering, calendaring, heat setting, drying, and curing [34]
;
• Acid mist produced during the carbonization of wool and during some types of spray dyeing [10]
;
• Solvent vapors released during and after solvent processing operations such as dry cleaning [34] and volatile organic compounds from mineral spirit solvents in print pastes or inks [33]
;
• Dust and lint produced by the processing of natural fibres and synthetic staple prior to and during spinning, as well as by napping and carpet shearing [34]
.