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Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World: Promoting Sustainability and Responsibility

This study examines the "slow fashion" movement as a sustainable alternative to fast fashion, analyzing how different business models, consumer behaviors, and policy frameworks can shift clothing production and consumption toward more responsible practices. Slow fashion is directly relevant to reducing textile microfiber pollution, since synthetic clothing is a major source of microplastics in wastewater.

2019 Laws 140 citations
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Fast fashion revolution: Unveiling the path to sustainable style in the era of fast fashion

Researchers examined the relationship between fashion orientation and fast fashion purchasing behavior, including how attitudes toward sustainable clothing consumption moderate these choices. They found that fashion orientation strongly influences purchase intention and actual buying behavior, but that sustainable clothing awareness can temper fast fashion consumption. The study highlights the environmental costs of fast fashion, including microplastic-generating textile waste, and calls for greater consumer education.

2024 E3S Web of Conferences 12 citations
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Sustainable Fashion

This review of sustainable fashion examines how the textile industry's shift to fast fashion has accelerated environmental damage, including the shedding of synthetic microfibres — a major source of microplastic pollution in waterways — and argues that circular production models and consumer behaviour change are needed to reduce the industry's footprint. The paper is relevant because textile microfibres are among the most commonly detected microplastics in marine and freshwater environments.

2026 International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
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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.

2023 International Scientific Journal of Engineering and Management 1 citations
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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.

2023 Circular Economy and Sustainability 15 citations
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Local Fashionalities: Växbo Lin and WomenWeave

This fashion studies thesis examines two local textile enterprises in Sweden and India as examples of 'slow fashion,' comparing their sustainable production practices to the environmental and social harms of global fast fashion. The study is a sustainability and design management study with no relevance to microplastic research.

2014 Borås Academic Digital Archive (University of Borås) 1 citations
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Consuming and retailing fashion: South Asian diaspora negotiating clothing practices, identities and community making in Glasgow

Not relevant to microplastics — this is a cultural anthropology study examining fashion retail practices and identity construction among South Asian diaspora communities in Glasgow.

2024 Social Identities 3 citations
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Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Cosmetic Products: Halal Cosmetics as an Emerging Research Area

This bibliometric study analyzed global research trends in cosmetics, finding halal cosmetics as an emerging area. Cosmetics are a significant source of microplastic exposure through microbeads in exfoliants and synthetic polymer ingredients in skincare products.

2023 Halalsphere
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SUSTAINABLE FASHION INDUSTRY: Why do we need a switch towards conscious consumption?

This thesis examines the fashion industry's environmental and social harms, including its significant contribution to microplastic pollution through synthetic textile washing, and argues for a shift toward more conscious consumer behavior. Fast fashion is one of the largest sources of synthetic microfibers entering waterways globally.

2019 Theseus (Ammattikorkeakoulujen)
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The Secrets of Fast Fashion Finally Revealed

This paper examines the fast fashion phenomenon, exploring its origins in rapid, trend-driven clothing production and analyzing its environmental and social consequences alongside emerging ethical and sustainable alternatives.

2024 The American Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovations and Research
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Role of Consumer Attitudes and Policies in Increasing Sustainable Buying Habits in the Fashion Industry

Researchers surveyed consumers across diverse regions and demographics to assess attitudes toward sustainable fashion purchasing, finding that policies, financial barriers, geographic setting, and physical barriers all influence willingness to choose sustainable over fast fashion products.

2025
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Trends and Gaps in Sustainable Fashion Research: a Bibliometric Analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 764 sustainable and fast fashion articles published between 2007 and March 2025 using Web of Science, applying co-citation, co-occurrence, and clustering techniques to map thematic trends, finding rapid research growth after 2015 and accelerated output post-2020 across environmental science, business, consumer studies, and textile engineering.

2025 Fibres and Textiles
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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.

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Transformation Toward Slow Fashion: A Literature Synthesis on the Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Fashion

This review synthesized literature from 2014 to 2024 on the ecological and social impacts of fast fashion, finding that the industry contributes up to 10% of global carbon emissions, generates significant microplastic and textile waste, consumes large water volumes, and is linked to labor exploitation — while identifying slow fashion as a viable sustainable alternative.

2025 Jurnal Sains dan Aplikasi Keilmuan Teknik Industri (SAKTI)
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Sustainability Initiatives in the Fashion Industry

This paper examines sustainability efforts in the fashion industry, where synthetic textiles are a major source of microplastic fiber pollution during washing. It reviews industry initiatives and consumer behavior changes aimed at reducing environmental impacts, including microfiber shedding.

2019 IntechOpen eBooks 14 citations
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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.

2023 The Frontiers of Society Science and Technology 1 citations
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Fostering Sustainable Fashion Innovation: Insights from Ideation Tool Development and Co-Creation Workshops

This paper explores design tools and co-creation workshops for generating sustainable fashion product innovations to reduce the fashion industry's environmental footprint. Sustainable fashion development is relevant to microplastic pollution because synthetic textile washing is a major source of microfiber release into waterways.

2023 Sustainability 1 citations
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Factors Influencing Consumers' Intention to Avoid Fast Fashion: A Comparative Study of Milan and Shanghai

Fast fashion is a significant source of microplastic pollution because synthetic clothing fibers shed during washing and enter waterways. This cross-cultural study compared what drives consumers in Milan and Shanghai to avoid plastic-based fast fashion, finding that personal attitudes and environmental concern are powerful motivators in both cities — but with different emphases: attitude toward behavior was stronger in Shanghai while value-based environmental concern was more influential in Milan. The results suggest that reducing clothing-related microplastic pollution requires culturally tailored messaging rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

2026 European Journal of Innovative Studies and Sustainability
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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.

2022 International Business Logistics 7 citations
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Fashionable Ethics: Exploring Ethical Perspectives in the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Fashion

Researchers compiled a special collection of studies examining ethical issues in fashion production, marketing, and consumption through the lens of established ethical theories and frameworks. The work highlights how the industry must balance social justice with environmental responsibility, including concerns like plastic waste and greenwashing.

2024 Journal of Business Ethics 13 citations
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Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry: Managing Waste and Ethical Labor Practices

Despite its title referencing microplastics, this paper studies sustainability challenges in the fast fashion industry — not microplastic pollution specifically. It examines consumer behavior, ethical labor practices, textile waste management, and greenwashing, with no substantive focus on microplastic fiber emissions or health impacts. It is not directly relevant to microplastic science.

2025 Journal of Lifestyle and SDGs Review 1 citations
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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.

2024 Sustainable Development 27 citations
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Exploring Consumer Engagement in Response to Sustainable Social Media Content and Brand Identity of Fashion Brands

This marketing study examines how sustainable social media content and brand identity affect consumer engagement with fashion brands. While not a science paper, consumer behavior toward sustainable fashion is relevant to demand for lower-microfiber synthetic textiles.

2023 Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness 2 citations
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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.

2020 Sustainability 116 citations