The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has published the “Circular on Cleaner Production Practices in the Textile Industry”. With the circular sent to the Governorships of 81 provinces, it is aimed to implement clean production technologies in order to minimize the negative effects of textile sector activities on the environment, to prevent air and water pollution, and to reduce water and energy consumption. With the circular, the consumption of groundwater used in production in the textile sector will also be controlled.
The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has published the "Circular on Cleaner Production Practices in the Textile Industry" in order to minimize the negative effects of textile sector activities on the environment, to prevent air and water pollution, and to implement clean production technologies for reducing water and energy consumption. The circular was sent to the Governorships of 81 provinces.
In the statement made by the Ministry, with the circular published, it is aimed to reduce the oil vapor released into the atmosphere from the chimneys of the textile factories, which cause intense complaints in the provinces where textile production is made in Turkey, in order to reduce the energy consumption and air emissions originating from the textile facilities.
With the circular, the limit value was determined for the first time for the sector-specific reduction of volatile organic compound and dust emissions. It was stated that compliance with this value, reduction and reporting of energy consumption per production, implementation of appropriate treatment systems to reduce dust emissions, and online monitoring of emissions using appropriate information technologies are mandatory.
In addition, for the removal of color from textile wastewater and the reuse of treated wastewater, techniques that ensure the reuse of salt water in fabric dyeing and washing by removing color from dye bath wastewater in textile enterprises have become mandatory. It was also noted that in order to save water and energy, it is obligatory to ensure the reuse of wastewater in possible areas after treatment, and to collect and reuse the cooling waters and wastewater with low pollutant load as separately as possible.
In the statement, in order to solve the conductivity problem caused by textile waste water, it has been made mandatory by the circular to remove the ions contained in the brine solution used in water softening systems with an appropriate technology in order to reduce the conductivity at the source.
“Consumption of groundwater used in production in the textile industry will be controlled”
On the other hand, in the textile sector, where water consumption is intense, in order to reduce water consumption and prevent unconscious groundwater consumption, the amount of water consumed in the enterprise will be measured, monitored and the flow rate will be controlled with devices and automatic shut-off valves.
Again, in regions where water resources are scarce, the process water needs of the facilities operating in the Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) will be supplied from the OIZ and the reuse of the waste water treatment plant effluent of the OIZ will be reused.
In the circular, the said techniques will be applied until January 10, 15 in textile facilities with an installed capacity of 2024 tons/day and above, until January 5, 10 in textile facilities between 15 tons/day and 2025 tons/day, and until January 5, 15 in textile facilities with a capacity of less than 2026 tons/day. announced.
The flexibility of bringing these dates forward and determining lower limit values with the decision of the Local Environment Board, based on the air quality and water resources of the province, was also included in the circular.
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