The textile and apparel industry is one of the pollution intensive and resource consuming industries and responsible for putting a huge amount of negative environmental impact. For making this sector much more environmentally friendly, proper dataset and analysis is required. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can provide a widespread look of environmental impacts of each and every stage of a product’s life cycle. A cradle to gate system boundary was applied to acquire and analysis all the dataset with some key environmental indicators like Water usage, Chemical burden, Land consumption, Energy usage, GHG emission & different pollution factors. Major environmental hotspots can be identified from the whole study. The overall study shows each fibre has different environmental profile. Cotton is extremely dependent on climate. It requires high water, land and agrochemicals. Polyester has a different profile with high energy requirement and contributes to GHG emission. Regenerated cellulose stands in between natural and synthetic fibre but it requires high amount of toxic chemicals for manufacturing. A proper evaluation and analysis is done in this study by comparing different pollution factors, carbon footprinting and eco-cost concept. The study gives a widespread look to identify environmental trade-offs among fibres and helps to identify the sustainable fibre in particular context and which will eventually help to reduce the negative environmental impacts and lessen down the eco burdens.

