The global environmental injustice of fast fashion Fast fashion, inexpensive and widely available of-the-moment garments, has changed the way people buy and dispose of clothing By selling large quantities of clothing at cheap prices, fast fashion has emerged as a dominant business model, causing garment consumption to skyrocket
Making Fashion Sustainable: Waste and Collective Responsibility Fashion is a growing industry, but the demand for cheap, fast fashion has a high environmental footprint Some brands lead the way by innovating to reduce waste, improve recycling, and encourage upcycling But if we are to make fashion more sustainable, consumers and industry must work together
Full article: Fast fashion consumption and its environmental . . . The intricate interplay between fast fashion consumption and its consequential environmental impacts has remained a central focus within scholarly discourse The scrutiny of 119 reviewed articles underscores the profound challenges posed by these dynamics in attaining the broader objectives of sustainable consumption and production
Fashion and textile waste management in the circular economy . . . We identify seven distinct types of key research focus depicted in Fig 4 including, fast fashion production (FFP), environmental sustainability (ES), waste management (WM), life cycle assessment (LCA), reuse and recycling strategy (RRS), composite recycling (CR), and transition to circular economy (TCE)
Too Fast of Fashion: A Literature Review on the Destructive . . . Fast fashion is a plague-like manufacturing and shopping trend that has become extremely prevalent in today's society, especially in the lives of adolescents and college students, therefore creating intense social and environmental impacts
The environmental price of fast fashion | Nature Reviews . . . In this Review, we identify the environmental impacts at critical points in the textile and fashion value chain, from production to consumption, focusing on water use, chemical pollution, CO 2
The Aftermath of Fast Fashion - Boston University The Aftermath of Fast Fashion: How Discarded Clothes Impact Public Health and the Environment Textile waste and environmental racism is a public health issue And art may play a powerful role in advancing our advocacy