**6. Conclusion**

In today's world, the role of the textile industry is very important. While the textile industry initially met traditional human needs such as dressing with yarn and fabric production and home textiles, today due to rising living standards, textiles have become much more technological and functional with diversified human requirements. It is also an important industry sector for both countries in the growth and development process (rather than traditional textile production) and countries that have completed their development (rather than high technological textile production). However, despite all these advantages, the textile industry causes a large amount of waste and environmental pollution.

At different stages of textile production, numerous chemicals and auxiliary substances are used, many of which are toxic and harmful to the environment and human beings. As a result of these production stages, a large amount of solid, liquid, gas, and sludge form waste is exposed and causes pollution. Noise pollution is also another negative result of the textile industry. Textile finishing operations are the processes where high amounts of water are used, so high amounts of wastewater (with high chemical load) occur. Therefore, the biggest problem of the textile industry is this wastewater burden. According to some studies, 20% of all fresh water pollution is made by textile treatment and dyeing [73]. Textile wastewater needs to be properly purified to reduce environmental damage. In this context, the selection of chemicals and dyes with less environmental damage or environmentfriendly finishing operations is also important in this context.

Any textile product has been subjected to washing, dry cleaning, and ironing many times during its service life. With each wash, the active chemical finishing agent in its structure is mixed into washing water, which then threatens the entire ecosystem by mixing into the sea, lakes, and underground waters, and is consequently used by water and soil plants contaminated with antimicrobial lice chemicals to be included in the food chain. Again, the seas and rivers contaminated with antimicrobial substances threaten water creatures and the human health as a result of consuming these creatures.

Studies on antimicrobial textiles have focused mainly on the synthesis of antimicrobial matter and its performance against microorganisms and washing durability. However, the effects of waste/wastewater content on the user's skin and health and all other creatures through contact/respiratory/consumption are needed to be further studies during the production of antimicrobial textiles, during and at the end of its lifecycle [74]. Antimicrobial agents derived from natural sources are safe for human and the environment, but the spectrum of activity and efficiency is not as good as the synthetic ones. To achieve this, more research work is needed in the field. Hence, natural antimicrobial agents derived from plant sources would be of prime importance in the future [75]. It is so urgent to protect and conserve the natural ecosystem of the earth, thereby restoring the global sustainability.
