Consumer Acceptance of Household Articles Developed through Recycled Agro textiles

The textile technology has widened its purpose of safeguarding the agricultural products by offering various textile materials that find application in various areas like agriculture, horticulture, fishery, etc. Agro textiles are the textile materials used to protect, gather and store agro products. Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology has different farms where a variety of crops are grown for research, instructional and commercial purposes. These agricultural farms utilized a variety of agro textile materials to enhance the productivity of agro products. The major problem arose when the agro textile materials add up to the solid waste production after their intended use. Hence, the present study was an attempt to explore the application of used agro textile materials in household value added products using the approach of sustainability through reuse, reduce and recycling of used materials. The used textile materials were collected from various agricultural farms. Four value added products were developed by the used materials collected from the farms namely, hanging basket, lampshade, coaster and wind chime. The purpose of the study was to assess the consumer acceptability of the developed products among the rural people. The products focused in awareness generation regarding the product development from waste materials through the aspects of sustainability and were greatly accepted by the people.