Impacts on the Environment

Positive impacts on the environment:

• Nylon can be recycled by being slowly broken down by fire fumes.


• Nylon can sometimes be made of a lsmall amount of recycled products. http://www.poly-pacific.com/images/polymer.jpg


• When nylon was first introduced as a textile, the idea of mild (on the environment), but sufficient laundry detergents emerged.

(Bugetsignmadison, 2009)

Negative impacts on the envionment:

• Nylon manufacture creates nitrous oxide, which is a greenhouse gas about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.


• Nylon takes a lot of water to condition and so, the environment loses resources that we need.

- (Gamman, L. & O'Mara, S., 2005)

- (Goldberg, J. B. , 2009)

- (Fogarty, A., 2009).

- (Russell, D. A., 2009)