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ClearSustainable Textile Industry: An Overview
This review examines the environmental sustainability challenges of the textile industry, covering chemical pollution, high water and energy consumption, and solid waste generation at every production stage, while discussing strategies such as sustainable materials, cleaner processing, and circular economy approaches.
Evaluating the environmental impacts of textile and fashion industries
This review evaluated the environmental impacts of the global textile and fashion industries, finding that resource overconsumption, water pollution, synthetic fiber microplastic release, and vast waste generation make these sectors major drivers of ecosystem degradation.
Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries
Researchers conducted a 20-year systematic review of sustainability in the fashion and textile industry, identifying consumer behavior, circular economy practices, and supply chain transparency as the three main research themes. The review highlights that synthetic textile fibers — a major source of microplastic pollution — are embedded in a complex industry that still lacks coherent sustainability standards across its global supply chains.
Analysis on the Sustainable Development Strategy of Fast Fashion Company
This study examines sustainable development strategies for global fast fashion companies, systematically analysing environmental and social challenges caused by the industry's resource-intensive and wasteful practices.
Clothing and Textile Sustainability
This review examines sustainability challenges facing the global clothing and textile industry, covering resource use, chemical pollution, and the growing problem of microfiber release from synthetic textiles. Synthetic garments shed millions of microplastic fibers with every wash, making the textile industry a major contributor to global microplastic pollution.
From Simplistic to Systemic Sustainability in the Textile and Fashion Industry
This paper is not about microplastic pollution. It examines sustainability challenges in the textile and fashion industry, arguing that current approaches are simplistic and insufficient. It proposes systemic solutions focused on circular value retention and sufficiency-based consumption to address waste, resource depletion, and pollution from fast fashion.
Appalling or Advantageous? Exploring the Impacts of Fast Fashion From Environmental, Social, and Economic Perspectives
This study explored the environmental, social, and economic impacts of fast fashion, finding that while low-cost clothing provides consumer benefits, the industry generates substantial negative externalities including textile microplastic pollution, excessive water use, and exploitative labor conditions in developing countries.
Analysing the barriers of sustainable supply chain in fashion sector: a review
This review identified the main barriers to sustainable supply chain management in the fashion textile sector in Egypt, including high costs, lack of regulatory enforcement, and limited consumer awareness. Sustainable supply chains are essential for reducing the textile industry's plastic microfiber pollution and overall environmental footprint. The review provides guidance for prioritizing reforms in emerging textile markets.
Recycling and valorization of textile waste
This review examines the textile industry's contribution to environmental pollution, focusing on synthetic fiber waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and microplastic release driven by fast fashion and overconsumption. It surveys EU regulatory efforts and circular economy strategies aimed at improving textile recycling and reducing the environmental footprint of synthetic materials.
Towards Sustainable Textiles for a Safer Planet: Main Topics
This review critically examines sustainability claims in the textile industry, arguing that despite advances in fiber development and recycling, true sustainability requires addressing microplastic shedding, energy use, and resource depletion throughout the full textile lifecycle. The authors distinguish between genuine sustainability and greenwashing.
The Business of Sustainability in Fashion: Following the Threads
This book examines how the fashion industry can pursue sustainability, exploring the interconnected environmental, economic, and social challenges of making apparel production more responsible and reducing plastic fiber pollution.
A literature review on environmental management in the textile industry focused on waste management.
This review examines environmental management practices in the textile industry with a focus on waste management strategies, analyzing 2,275 articles from ScienceDirect and IEEE. Researchers found that poor waste management across the textile supply chain has worsened due to rising global demand, with significant negative impacts on air, water, and soil quality.
Sustainable Fashion—Rationale and Policies
This review examines the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry — from synthetic fiber microplastic pollution and water contamination to labor exploitation — and surveys emerging global policies aimed at driving the sector toward greater sustainability.
Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities for Textile Circularity
Researchers conducted qualitative research with textile industry stakeholders to identify fundamental challenges in transitioning to a circular economy. The study highlights urgent needs including standardized definitions to prevent greenwashing, improved sorting and recycling systems for post-consumer textiles, and innovations in mechanical recycling to maintain material value and reduce environmental pollution from textile waste.
Production waste of the textile and clothing industry in sustaindevelopment context
Researchers identified and categorized production waste streams from the textile and clothing industry, assessed their environmental impacts in a sustainable development context, and proposed waste minimization strategies in response to increasing EU regulatory pressure.
Systematic Insights into a Textile Industry: Reviewing Life Cycle Assessment and Eco-Design
This systematic review of life cycle assessments for the textile industry identified key environmental impact hotspots across the supply chain, finding that fiber production and dyeing processes dominate environmental burdens and that eco-design strategies offer the greatest improvement potential.
Environmental Pollution by the Fast Fashion: Current Status and Prospects
This review examines the environmental footprint of fast fashion — mass clothing production that generates enormous textile waste, synthetic fiber shedding, and water pollution. It is relevant to microplastics because synthetic garment washing is one of the largest sources of microfiber pollution entering waterways, though the paper focuses on industry-level sustainability responses rather than quantifying microplastic release specifically.
The Global Clothing Oversupply: An Emerging Environmental Crisis
This study examines how the global fast fashion industry drives environmental damage through massive overproduction and rapid disposal of clothing, which contributes to microfiber pollution and textile waste. Researchers surveyed consumers and found growing awareness of sustainability issues but a gap between awareness and purchasing behavior. The study advocates for greater traceability in clothing supply chains and a shift toward more sustainable business practices.
Water Pollution Hazards and Toxicity Caused by Textile Industries Effluent
This review examined water pollution caused by textile industry effluents, which contain dyes, heavy metals, and synthetic compounds that threaten both ecosystems and human health. The authors assess current treatment technologies and regulatory challenges in managing wastewater from one of the most water-intensive industries globally.
The Fashion Industry and its Problematic Consequences in the Green Marketing Era a Review
This narrative literature review examines the environmental and social consequences of the fast fashion industry and evaluates green marketing as a strategy for reducing negative impacts, drawing on Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar studies to assess how sustainability-driven consumer demand and corporate green practices can mitigate textile industry pollution.