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ClearA 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.
Advancing sustainable fashion with 3D and AR technologies: a virtual fashion film approach
This paper is not about microplastics; it investigates how 3D design software and augmented reality tools can be used in virtual fashion films to promote sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing material waste.
Unveiling Potential Landscapes in the Age of Dematerialization and Digital Progression
This study examines how the fashion industry's unsustainable production practices contribute to environmental pollution, including textile-derived microplastic contamination. The authors explore how digital technologies and dematerialization trends could shift consumption away from fast fashion toward more sustainable models. The research suggests that cultural and technological shifts may help reduce the fashion industry's environmental footprint.
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.
Fashion industry: exploring the stages of digitalization, innovative potential and prospects of transformation into an environmentally sustainable ecosystem
This study analyzes the digital transformation of the fashion industry, identifying the stages of digitalization and the potential to shift from a linear to a circular production model to address mounting raw material shortages and environmental impacts. The authors propose an ecosystem-based digital platform as a framework for sustainable industry transformation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Virtual versus sustainable fashion: a systematic literature review
This systematic literature review examined the degree of convergence between virtual fashion -- digitally rendered clothing without physical equivalents -- and sustainable fashion, assessing whether virtual garments offer a meaningful pathway to reducing the environmental footprint of the apparel industry.
The Good, the Bad, and the Sustainable: How Technology Has Changed and Continues to Change the World of Fashion, from Cotton Gin to Digital Clothes
This review examines how technology has driven the rise of fast fashion — one of the most polluting industries globally — and explores how it can also drive more sustainable practices. Fast fashion production and disposal are major sources of synthetic textile microfibers that enter waterways during washing and waste processing.
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.
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.
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 Feasibility of Full Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
This study investigates the feasibility of full sustainability in the fashion industry, examining the sector's carbon footprint, water pollution, and microplastic contamination to assess whether comprehensive environmental improvement is achievable.
Sustainable Decision-Making in the Fashion Industry : How to influence the fashion industry to adopt more sustainable packaging solutions
This study examined how different actors in the fashion industry make sustainability decisions, noting that the industry is responsible for an estimated 20-35% of microplastics in the ocean from synthetic fiber shedding. The study explores how manufacturers, retailers, and consumers can be influenced to make more environmentally responsible choices.
Rise of digital fashion and metaverse: influence on sustainability
This review explores how digital fashion and the metaverse could help address sustainability challenges in the apparel industry, which has doubled its output since 2000. Researchers examined how virtual technologies might reduce the environmental footprint of fashion by shifting some consumption to digital spaces. The study suggests that metaverse platforms could influence consumer decision-making and offer competitive advantages while potentially reducing waste and resource use.
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.
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.
Implementation of Digitalized Technologies for Fashion Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges
This review examines how digital technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and 3D printing are being adopted by the fashion industry to improve sustainability and efficiency. Researchers identified both opportunities for reducing environmental impact through smarter manufacturing and supply chains, and challenges including high implementation costs and data privacy concerns. The study connects fashion industry digitalization to broader sustainability goals including reducing plastic and textile waste.
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.
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.
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.
Virtual Fashion: Digital Representations of Materiality and Time
This design thesis analyzes virtual fashion — digital clothing rendered for social media and gaming environments — and how it changes the relationship between fashion, material goods, and time. While focused on digital design theory, virtual fashion is proposed as a way to reduce demand for physical synthetic garments that shed microplastic fibers.