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Sustainable Supply Chain in the Textile and Garment Industry of Vietnam

This review evaluates Vietnam's textile and garment supply chain using a sustainable development framework, examining economic, social, and environmental dimensions. The authors identify achievements and challenges across the supply chain and offer recommendations for government and industry to advance sustainability in one of Vietnam's key export sectors.

2023 Journal of Economics and Business
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Sustainable 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.

2022 Non-Metallic Material Science 26 citations
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Fast Fashion Issue in Vietnam: Legal Aspects and Environmental Protection

This review examines the fast fashion phenomenon in Vietnam from legal and environmental protection perspectives, analyzing how accelerating fashion consumption contributes to textile waste and microplastic pollution. The paper identifies gaps in Vietnamese environmental law and policy frameworks for regulating the fashion industry's environmental impacts.

2024 Pakistan Journal of Criminology 1 citations
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Sustainability of the Fashion Industry: An Examination of the US Fashion Industry's Impact on Water Quality

Researchers examined the impact of the US fashion industry on water quality, conducting a review of the literature on garment production-related water pollution while noting that the US has been underrepresented in global studies that typically focus on countries with large manufacturing sectors. The study found that domestic fashion industry activities contribute measurably to water quality degradation, including through microfiber and chemical discharge.

2025
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Sustainability Challenges of the Textile Industry

This review examines the environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges facing the global textile industry, including high water consumption, chemical pollution, labor exploitation, and the compounding effects of fast fashion on waste generation and resource depletion. The authors argue that addressing these interconnected challenges requires a multidimensional approach spanning supply chain transparency, regulatory reform, and shifts in consumer behavior.

2025 IntechOpen eBooks
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Reducing the Environmental Impact of Denim: A Comparative Study of Green and Conventional Manufacturing Practices

Researchers conducted a life cycle assessment comparing sustainable and conventional denim manufacturing practices in Bangladesh, evaluating indicators including GHG emissions, water use, and terrestrial acidification. Yarn and fabric production accounted for 56% of GHG emissions and 45% of terrestrial acidification, identifying early production stages as the priority targets for environmental improvement in denim manufacturing.

2025 Textile & Leather Review 2 citations
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Evaluating Pollution from Aquaculture Materials and Developing Sustainable Alternatives to Reduce Marine Environmental Impacts: A Case Study in Vietnam

Researchers assessed the status of marine pollution associated with aquaculture activities in Vietnam, with particular emphasis on plastic and microplastic contamination from aquaculture materials, and developed recommendations for more sustainable alternatives to reduce the environmental footprint of coastal aquaculture operations.

2025 Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg
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Current Environmental Situation and Green Solutions for Vietnam's East Sea

This paper reviews environmental challenges in Vietnam's South China Sea, including plastic pollution alongside climate change threats like sea level rise, acidification, and biodiversity loss. It calls for improved environmental management to protect both marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

2019 European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research
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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.

2023 Sustainability 25 citations
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Estrategias sostenibles para el aprovechamiento de textiles provenientes de la moda rápida (fast fashion)

This study reviews sustainable strategies for managing textile waste from fast fashion — the second most polluting manufacturing industry globally, responsible for 20% of wastewater and 10% of carbon emissions. The research identifies eco-sustainable approaches aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals that could help circular economy efforts reduce fast fashion's environmental footprint.

2023 Revista EIA 2 citations
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A Review on Textile and Clothing Industry Impacts on The Environment

This review examines how textile and clothing industry operations — including dyeing, finishing, and synthetic fiber production — contribute to water, air, and soil pollution, documenting the downstream effects on aquatic organisms, human health, and plants, and evaluating mitigation approaches across the industry's environmental impact categories.

2022 International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 3 citations
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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.

2025 Journal of Physics Conference Series
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A Study on Waste Disposal Management in Textile Industry: A Case Study of Gul Ahmed

Researchers examined waste disposal management practices in the textile industry using Gul Ahmed as a case study, investigating how waste disposal methods, green supply chain practices, and waste reduction strategies relate to company productivity through a mixed-methods correlational design combining questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews. The study aimed to quantify the relationships between environmental management variables and operational performance in textile manufacturing.

2022 South Asian Management Review 2 citations
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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.

2022 SHS Web of Conferences 9 citations
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Hiện tượng tẩy xanh trong ngành đồ uống và thời trang nhanh

This short Vietnamese commentary introduces the concept of greenwashing in the beverage and fast fashion industries, where companies exaggerate or misrepresent their environmental efforts to attract eco-conscious consumers. The abstract text is limited and does not contain full research findings.

2023 1 citations
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Challenges and opportunities for green transitions adoption in Kenya's textile manufacturing industry

This study investigated the challenges and opportunities for adopting green practices in Kenya's textile manufacturing industry, a sector responsible for roughly 56% of the country's industrial pollution. Researchers examined two Kenyan textile mills and found that while workers and management recognized the need for sustainability, barriers including cost and infrastructure gaps slowed progress. The findings highlight how textile manufacturing contributes to environmental contamination, including microplastic-generating waste.

2025 Frontiers in Sustainability 6 citations
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Sustainable Manufacturing Practices in the Apparel Industry: Integrating Eco-Friendly Materials and Processes

This review examined sustainable manufacturing practices in the apparel industry, covering eco-friendly materials, waterless dyeing, renewable energy adoption, and circular economy principles. The authors found that integrating these approaches throughout the production lifecycle can substantially reduce the industry's environmental footprint, including microplastic shedding from synthetic textiles.

2025
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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.

2023 International Journal of Geography Geology and Environment
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Greenwashing trong ngành đồ uống và thời trang nhanh: Tác động môi trường đằng sau hình ảnh đẹp như tranh vẽ

This Vietnamese study examines greenwashing practices in the beverage and fast fashion industries, where companies misrepresent their environmental efforts to attract sustainability-conscious consumers. The study uses the Volkswagen clean diesel scandal as a starting point to analyze how greenwashing has spread across industries.

2023
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Standards of sustainability in the fashion industry

This review examines sustainability standards in the fashion industry, which accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, significant water use, and over 85% of textiles going to landfill annually, and explores how washing synthetic clothing releases microplastics into waterways. The authors assess regulatory frameworks, voluntary standards, and the gap between the industry's environmental impact and current sustainability commitments.

2024
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Microplastic emissions in textile wet processing: Progress, challenges, and mitigation strategies

This review examines how textile wet processing, including dyeing and finishing operations, contributes to microplastic emissions that are more substantial in volume and chemically diverse than those from domestic laundry. Researchers found that mechanical forces, water, and chemical treatments during industrial processing release significant quantities of synthetic microfibers into wastewater. The study explores mitigation strategies including bioengineered materials, improved textile design, surface coatings, and enhanced filtration technologies.

2025 The Science of The Total Environment 1 citations
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Beyond growth: a wellbeing economy for the textile and garment sector

This study explored how wellbeing economy approaches could transform the textile and garment sector, arguing that growth-alternative economic models offer a realistic path toward achieving both planetary and human health goals in one of the world's most polluting industries.

2023 Public Health Research & Practice 6 citations
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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.

2022 Academic Society for Appropriate Technology 6 citations
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Determination of environmental sustainability practices in the apparel sector of Sri Lanka

Researchers investigated environmental sustainability practices across the value chain of Sri Lanka's export-oriented apparel sector, which contributes over 40% of the country's export income. The study mapped environmental impacts from yarn manufacturing through final finishing across approximately 300 manufacturers and identified practices implemented to mitigate these impacts.

2023 European Journal of Sustainable Development Research 5 citations