• Sumita Sikka
• Dr. Prabhdip Brar

The changed world thinking on textiles has had a tremendous impact on the Indian textile industry. Whereas at one time in the United States of America there was a glut of textiles and clothing which was supplied by the garment manufacturing industry of the South East Asian countries like Bangladesh, China, Vietnam and Sri Lanka besides India. Changed ideology on the concept of waste generation along with the world wide concern for environmental depletion have led the world markets and buyers to give the necessary sanctions for improving work ethics and worker conditions. Alongwith this changed mind set on environmentally friendly clothing concepts there emerged a growing concern for looking at waste especially in terms of textile waste. There was the segregation of Pre-consumer and Post-consumer Textile Waste. The newer age thinking has more to do with Post consumer textile waste (PCTW). The populations and erudite thinkers deliberating upon the future of the planet are now advocating the idea of preventing textile waste to be dumped into landfills where the degeneration is a long drawn process. There is a current wave of thought towards recycling and reuse of a garment to its very end. The entire life cycle of a garment is getting reprocessed, re-designed and reused in a number of forms. This is the window of opportunity for the textile waste workers of Panipat which has been acknowledged as the “cast off” capital of the world where recycling has become a way of life. There is tremendous scope for this region to emerge as a leader in the arena of refurbishing and renewing fabrics to form a variety of products. This paper looks at the world thought processes wave that is contributing towards the creation of several new portals of opportunity in an otherwise unexplored, virgin area of redesigning textiles from fabric waste. The methodology for the paper constructs an analysis framework based on secondary reports and documented data compiled by government private and civil society reports and documentation. This conceptual paper is aimed at recognizing and enumerating the various opportunities available to the large number of skilled semi-skilled and unskilled workers. It is also the harbinger of a major lucrative resource for the manufacturing body of Panipat which is currently undirected, unorganized and largely uninformed or even ill-informed on the wide spectrum of products arising to promote a wholesome market in ‘Chindi’ products

Textile Waste, Landfills, pre-consumer, post-consumer, recycling, reuse, textile, manufacturing industry, market, economy.

"‘CHINDI’ OR TEXTILE WASTE PRODUCTS OF PANIPAT, INDIA – DYNAMISM OF EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.924-929, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006165.pdf

"‘CHINDI’ OR TEXTILE WASTE PRODUCTS OF PANIPAT, INDIA – DYNAMISM OF EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp924-929, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006165.pdf