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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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The Phenomenon of Greenwashing In The Fashion Industry: A Conceptual Framework

This paper develops a conceptual framework for understanding greenwashing in the fashion industry, where brands make misleading environmental claims. The fashion industry is a major source of synthetic microfiber pollution, making honest sustainability reporting especially important for environmental protection.

2023 Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology 2 citations
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Shades of Green

This study examines greenwashing in the fashion industry, analyzing how companies misrepresent environmental sustainability claims to consumers despite growing awareness of the sector's serious human rights and ecological impacts.

2025 Fashion Highlight
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Greenwashing's Influence on Corporate Performance and Strategies for Regulation and Oversight

This study analyzed how greenwashing affects corporate financial performance and reputation, finding that deceptive environmental marketing can provide short-term benefits but exposes companies to regulatory and reputational risks, and recommends enhanced oversight frameworks.

2024 Shanlax International Journal of Arts Science and Humanities 6 citations
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Greenwashing and sustainable fashion industry

This study examines how greenwashing practices undermine the fashion industry's transition to sustainable circular economy, demonstrating that transparent and honest sustainability communication is essential for regaining consumer trust.

2022 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 168 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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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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Detecting Greenwashing! The Influence of Product Colour and Product Price on Consumers’ Detection Accuracy of Faked Bio-fashion

Researchers tested whether consumers could correctly identify genuine eco-friendly fashion versus greenwashing based on product color and price, finding that people were reliably misled by green-colored or high-priced items regardless of their actual environmental status. The results call for stronger government regulations in consumer markets to prevent deceptive eco-labeling.

2023 Journal of Consumer Policy 27 citations
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Greenwashing and Bluewashing in Black Friday-Related Sustainable Fashion Marketing on Instagram

Researchers examined greenwashing and bluewashing strategies used by sustainable fashion brands in Black Friday Instagram campaigns, finding that environmentally concerned but non-sustainable consumers responded positively while those with actual sustainable purchasing behavior did not.

2022 Sustainability 100 citations
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Analysis on the Sustainable Development Strategy of Fast Fashion Company

This study examines sustainable development strategies for global fast fashion companies, systematically analysing environmental and social challenges caused by the industry's resource-intensive and wasteful practices.

2025 Academic journal of management and social sciences
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Appalling or Advantageous? Exploring the Impacts of Fast Fashion From Environmental, Social, and Economic Perspectives

This study explored the environmental, social, and economic impacts of fast fashion, finding that while low-cost clothing provides consumer benefits, the industry generates substantial negative externalities including textile microplastic pollution, excessive water use, and exploitative labor conditions in developing countries.

2022 Journal for Global Business and Community 34 citations
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Current Status and Analysis of the Solution of Greening in the Textile Industry in Vietnam

This review examines the environmental footprint of Vietnam's textile and garment industry, which accounts for nearly 4% of global freshwater consumption and approximately 20% of water pollution, and evaluates greening strategies including sustainable factory design, energy-efficient equipment, and renewable energy adoption. The authors assess solutions aimed at reducing CO2 emissions toward a net-zero target by 2050.

2024 Engineering Science Letter 1 citations
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Impact of Green Advertising and Packaging on Purchase Decisions via Green Perceived Value

This paper is not about microplastics; it studies how green advertising and eco-friendly packaging influence consumer purchasing decisions for bubble tea beverages in Indonesia, using marketing theory.

2024 Ilomata International Journal of Social Science 2 citations
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Dampak Strategi Offshore Outsourcing Dalam Bisnis Fast Fashion Terhadap Degradasi Lingkungan di Bangladesh

This Indonesian paper examines how offshore outsourcing in fast fashion contributes to environmental degradation in Bangladesh, including water pollution. Fast fashion's synthetic fabrics are a major global source of microplastic fiber pollution in waterways and oceans.

2023 Journal of Political Issues
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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.

2024 The Boller Review 1 citations
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(Un)Sustainable transitions towards fast and ultra-fast fashion

Researchers developed a framework to analyze the sustainability tensions within the fashion industry, showing that while established brands are adopting green initiatives and new business models, the simultaneous rise of ultra-fast fashion is creating major negative environmental and social impacts that offset these gains. The study highlights the complexity of achieving genuine sustainability transitions in an industry driven by competing institutional pressures.

2023 Fashion and Textiles 61 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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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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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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Media Coverage of Sustainable Fashion: a Linguistic Perspective

This linguistic analysis examines how media coverage frames sustainable fashion, finding that despite growing attention to environmental issues in the fashion industry, there remains a significant gap between theoretical discourse and practical implementation of sustainable practices.

2023 Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Literary Studies Linguistics Folklore Studies
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The Influence of Perceived CSR Authenticity on Perceived Brand Loyalty Through Perceived Brand Authenticity in the Fast Fashion Industry

This study examined how perceived authenticity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs influences brand loyalty in the fast fashion industry. Consumers who believed a brand's sustainability efforts were genuine showed higher loyalty. The findings are relevant to plastic pollution because authentic sustainability commitments in fast fashion could reduce synthetic textile fiber production and the associated microplastic contamination of waterways.

2023 Journal Of Social Research 2 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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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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Possibilities of Legal Mechanisms to Counteract Greenwashing to Achieve the Principles of Sustainable Development

This legal analysis examines greenwashing — when companies make misleading environmental claims — and reviews mechanisms to counter this practice under sustainability and consumer protection law. As microplastic-related concerns drive demand for 'eco-friendly' plastics and products, preventing false environmental claims is important for ensuring genuine pollution reduction.

2023 Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 1 citations