Reumo
Brazilian Textile Industry sector has a strategic participation in the economy, employing more than one million workers and using intensive environmental, social, and economic resources. The industry decisions makers of this sector that want to implement Cleaner Production actions depend on to identify the items with more significance at each textile production step. Emergy accounting attempts to measure the environmental work required to generate goods and services that can be used by humans. The case study of a Brazilian textile production chain comprehend with the spinning mill that transforms cotton bales into yarn bobbins delivering to the weaving mill that produces dyed denim fabric, which is the major material to produce the garment (basic five pockets denim jeans pants) at the apparel mill and at last delivered to the market at the pants shops, and highlight the items with major relevance in Emergy terms. The Environment Sustainability Index (ESI) for the denim jeans pants in case study equal 0.0062, considered sustainable in short term, and the production process depends almost exclusively from resources that come from the economy (F).