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ClearA call for a fashion pact: challenges and opportunities for circular economy in the brazilian fashion industry
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for circular economy practices in Brazil's fashion industry, which produces large amounts of textile waste. Textiles are a major source of microplastic fiber pollution, and transitioning to circular models could significantly reduce plastic emissions from clothing manufacturing and laundering.
Valuing Modern Technologies to Boost the Circular Economy in the Fashion Industry
This study examines how modern technologies can support circular economy principles in the fashion industry, focusing on reuse, repair, reconditioning, and recycling strategies to reduce plastic and textile pollution.
From Design Decisions to Sustainable Development: Exploring Textile and Fashion Designers’ Challenges in the Portuguese Textile and Fashion Industry
Despite its title referencing sustainable textile and fashion design, this paper studies the barriers Portuguese fashion designers face when trying to incorporate environmental sustainability into their work — not microplastic pollution. It examines industry challenges like greenwashing, supply chain opacity, and cost pressures and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
Circular Economy and Waste in the Fashion Industry
This review analyses existing EU legislative measures relevant to sustainability and circular economy transitions in the fashion industry, a sector associated with high water and energy consumption, chemical pollution, and microplastic generation from textiles. The authors evaluate the EU Circular Economy Action Plan of 2015 and its revised waste framework as tools for driving systemic change in fashion industry practices.
How can we deal with the large amount of microplastics delivered to landfills and released into the environment by fast fashion? A practical valorization approach for mitigating textile fibrous microplastics before affecting the environment.
Researchers proposed a practical valorization approach for managing fibrous microplastics generated by fast fashion textile waste, addressing the challenge of large volumes of textile microplastics entering landfills and the environment through a circular economy framework to intercept fibers before environmental release.
Bringing Sustainable Practices, Fashion Shows, and Sociological Insights Together to Reinvigorate Sustainable Fashion Education
This study explores how sustainable practices, fashion shows, and sociological perspectives can be integrated to strengthen sustainable fashion education. Researchers reviewed current challenges the fashion industry faces in adopting sustainability and examined how virtual fashion experiences present both opportunities and obstacles. The study highlights the role of fashion education in promoting environmental awareness, including reducing reliance on synthetic materials that contribute to microplastic pollution.
How can the fashion industry be sustainable? The use of immersive technology in fashion design for innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability
This study examines how immersive digital technologies can help the fashion industry adopt sustainable practices, exploring how digitised design and production processes can reduce environmental impacts including textile microplastic pollution.
Towards circular fashion: Management strategies promoting circular behaviour along the value chain
This study explores how the fashion industry can shift from a wasteful linear model to a circular one through better management strategies, including sustainable materials, take-back programs, and on-demand manufacturing. The fashion industry is a major source of microplastic pollution through synthetic fiber shedding during production, washing, and disposal. Adopting circular practices could significantly reduce the amount of microplastic fibers entering the environment from textiles.
Developing a Lifecycle Framework for Textile Design Education
This study examines how textile design education must be fundamentally restructured to address the industry's role in generating 8-10% of global carbon emissions and 92 million tons of annual textile waste, including microplastic shedding from synthetic fibers. Through literature review and case studies of pioneering programs, the authors propose a four-stage integrated educational framework that cultivates systemic thinking and ethical responsibility in designers.
A Study on the Awareness and Perception towards Sustainable Fashion
This paper is not directly relevant to microplastics; it surveys university students' awareness and attitudes toward sustainable fashion and the broader environmental impacts of the textile industry, including waste and water contamination.
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.
La transición a una economía circular como una ventaja competitiva en la Pyme de la manufactura textil en Tlaxcala, México
This study assessed whether adopting circular economy principles could serve as a competitive advantage for small and medium-sized textile manufacturers in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Survey results showed that firms applying circular practices reported better environmental and economic outcomes. The fashion and textile industry's transition away from linear production models could significantly reduce its plastic microfiber pollution.
Mapping sustainable options in the fashion industry: A systematic literature review and a future research agenda
This systematic review examined 187 studies on sustainable practices in the fashion industry, which is a major contributor to microplastic pollution through synthetic textiles. Researchers classified sustainable solutions across the purchase, use, and disposal phases of clothing and identified key gaps in current knowledge. The study suggests that addressing fashion industry practices is critical for reducing textile-related microplastic contamination in the environment.
Microbiology Meets the Fashion World: A Paradigm Shift in Design Education and Practice Through Biotechnology
This study examines how integrating microbiology and biotechnology into fashion design education can shift the industry away from its fossil-fuel-dependent, fast-fashion model, arguing that transdisciplinary approaches using living organisms and bio-based materials represent a promising path toward sustainability in one of the world's most polluting industries.
The current situation of fast fashion industry and how to reduce the waste
This paper reviews the environmental problems caused by the fast fashion industry and evaluates current and emerging solutions including circular economy design and advanced recycling technologies. The authors argue that traditional waste disposal is no longer adequate for the volume of textile waste generated. Transitioning to circular fashion models could reduce the textile fiber microplastics that wash off synthetic clothing into waterways.
Closing the Loop
This paper is not primarily about microplastics; it describes the FasT4C project, which applies Industry 4.0 design and process tools to develop a cradle-to-cradle circular economy approach for Italian fashion manufacturing.
Technology integration to promote circular economy transformation of the garment industry: a systematic literature review
This systematic literature review examines how Industry 4.0 technologies can help transform the garment industry from a linear to a circular economy model. Researchers found that digital technologies can address environmental pollution and excess supply issues while enabling market digitization, consumer personalization, and supply chain transparency. The study highlights both the advantages and remaining challenges of integrating technology for sustainable garment industry development.
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.
A Plan to Secure Environmental Sustainability Through Digital Transformation of the Fashion Industry: Focusing on Fashion Design and Smartization of the Manufacturing Process
This study examines how digital transformation and smart manufacturing technologies in the fashion industry can reduce environmental pollution, proposing a framework for integrating digital design tools and process optimization to improve sustainability across the fashion clothing supply chain.
Rebirth: An Exploration of Circular Fashion
This review examines the concept of circular fashion as a response to fast fashion's unsustainable practices, critically evaluating how greenwashing has emerged as a mechanism to monetize eco-initiatives without genuine environmental benefit. The paper analyzes case studies of circular fashion brands and proposes criteria for distinguishing authentic circular economy practices from superficial marketing claims.
Trends in the Fashion Industry. The Perception of Sustainability and Circular Economy: A Gender/Generation Quantitative Approach
This study surveyed consumer perceptions of sustainability and circular economy concepts in the fashion industry across gender and generational groups, finding significant differences in awareness and willingness to adopt sustainable purchasing behaviors.
Sustainability, the Circular Economy and Digitalisation in the German Textile and Clothing Industry
This study examined sustainability, circular economy practices, and digitalization in the German textile and clothing industry, finding that despite the sector's traditionally linear production model, digital technologies are enabling progress toward more circular and sustainable practices.
Research on Recycling Design of Clothing Textiles Based on Sustainable Development
This review examines sustainable design strategies for recycling and reusing clothing and textiles, covering the full lifecycle from design to end-of-life disposal. Textile recycling is relevant to microplastic pollution because synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon shed microplastic fibers during washing.
Human Perceptions of Recycled Textiles and Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review
A systematic literature review of 100+ studies on recycled textiles and circular fashion found that consumers generally hold positive attitudes toward sustainability benefits but are deterred by perceived quality risks, with emotional and functional value perceptions varying by product type.