Economic Analysis on Pollution Control for Textile Industry

Abstract

Since the present researches on pollution control for textile printing & dyeing industry are mainly focused on qualitative description up to now, instead of special quantitative analysis, based on the census data of pollution sources, this paper adopts literature collection method and single-factor variance components method for continuous variables to identify the factors influencing cost for pollution control, and then establishes a function of investment and operation cost for textile printing & dyeing industry by MLE (maximum likelihood estimation) method on the basis of normal distributional hypothesis, so as to calculate pollution control cost for the textile industry and provide a quantitative basis for pollution control of the textile printing & dyeing industry. The research result shows that nature of enterprise, pollution-control method, regional distribution and industry type are all important factors which influence cost control of textile industry, there are significant variations of pollution control cost for textile industry between among different regions, treatment processes, or industry types.