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ClearTechnology 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.
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.
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.
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.
Circular Economy Practices in Fashion Design Education: The First Phase of a Case Study
Researchers examined whether circular economy principles are integrated into Fashion Design Technician courses in Portugal, using documentary analysis and a questionnaire survey of 40 educators. The study assessed curriculum coverage of sustainability and circularity concepts, identifying the degree to which fashion education addresses textile microplastic pollution and waste reduction as part of professional training.
A 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.
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.
Innovative Textile Recycling and Upcycling Technologies for Circular Fashion: Reducing Landfill Waste and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability
This systematic review of 95 studies found that circular textile recycling technologies can divert a median of 74% of textile waste from landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 38-49% compared to virgin fiber production. Advanced sorting infrastructure using NIR or FTIR spectroscopy proved decisive, boosting yields by 12-18% in mechanical recycling lines. These findings are relevant to microplastic pollution because textile fiber recycling reduces the volume of synthetic fabrics that shed microplastic fibers during use and disposal.
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.
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.
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.
Developments in Recycling of Polyester Textile Waste
This review examines developments in polyester textile waste recycling, discussing how the fast fashion model has shortened garment lifespans, increased waste, and contributed to microplastic pollution from synthetic fibres. The authors survey mechanical, chemical, and circular economy recycling approaches, highlighting low current recycling rates especially in developing countries and the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption.
State of the Art in Textile Waste Management: A Review
This review examines the current state of textile waste management, from collection and sorting to recycling technologies. Researchers found that advances in near-infrared sorting, chemical recycling, and biological recycling are creating new possibilities for recovering value from discarded fabrics. The study highlights that textile waste is a significant contributor to landfill volume and microplastic pollution, making improved management essential for environmental sustainability.
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.
Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles workshop report
Researchers convened a workshop to examine how the textile industry can shift toward a circular economy — one where materials are reused and recycled rather than discarded — covering challenges in fiber identification, sorting technology, and policy standards. The report outlines key technical and regulatory barriers that must be addressed to reduce textile waste, including microfiber pollution from washing.
A Review on Advanced Technology for Sustainable Management of Synthetic Microplastic Waste
This review examines how synthetic microfibers released from textiles during manufacturing, washing, and disposal contribute to microplastic pollution. The paper evaluates advanced technologies for capturing and breaking down these microfibers, which are important because textile-derived microplastics are among the most commonly found types in both the environment and human tissues.
Linear Economy versus Circular Economy: New raw material
This paper examines the fashion industry's role in environmental sustainability and argues for a transition from linear to circular economic models. It highlights how the current take-make-waste approach generates massive textile waste, including synthetic microplastic fibers. A circular fashion economy would reduce both material waste and plastic pollution from textiles.
4R Technique (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, And Recover) As A Preventive Measure Towards Waste Minimization In The Garment Industry
This study evaluated the effectiveness of reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover practices in the garment manufacturing sector. Applying these principles in textile production is directly relevant to reducing the microplastic fiber pollution that comes from synthetic fabrics throughout their lifecycle.
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.
Recycling and Reusing Strategies to Prevent Microplastic Generation: a Review
This review examines recycling and reusing strategies for plastic materials as a means of preventing microplastic generation, grounding the analysis in circular economy principles emphasizing resource efficiency through repair, reuse, and recycling. The authors evaluate current methodologies and propose strategies to reduce plastic waste degradation into microplastics, linking waste management practices to pollution prevention outcomes.
Methods for Natural and Synthetic Polymers Recovery from Textile Waste
This review examined methods for recovering natural and synthetic polymers from textile waste, highlighting how the fashion industry generates massive microplastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions annually. The authors compared recycling approaches for both natural fibers (cellulose, protein) and synthetic polymers, assessing their environmental trade-offs.
Opportunities and Limitations in Recycling Fossil Polymers from Textiles
This review examined opportunities and limitations in recycling fossil-based synthetic polymers from textiles, noting that the fashion industry generates 58 million tons of plastic waste annually and releases microplastics during use and disposal.
Possibility Routes for Textile Recycling Technology
This review examined possible routes for textile recycling technology, covering chemical, mechanical, and biological methods, and highlighted the urgent need for efficient, cost-effective recycling processes to address the fashion industry's growing environmental impact.
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.