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The Impact of Fast Fashion on Marine Plastic Pollution

This paper reviews the fast fashion industry's contribution to waterway pollution, explaining that cheap synthetic clothing sheds microplastic fibers during production and washing, and that the industry's rapid growth — especially in Asia — is making this a significant global pollution source. The authors propose manufacturing regulations and consumer behavior change as solutions to reduce the volume of synthetic microfibers entering waterways.

2023 Current World Environment 6 citations
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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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Addressing the Impacts of Textile Industries on Environment and Socio- Economic Condition of Bank Town and Baraigram Area: a Management Perspective

Not a microplastics paper — this study documents the environmental and public health impacts of textile industry effluents on communities and waterways near factories in Bangladesh, focusing on toxic chemical discharge, worker health risks, and the inadequate use of wastewater treatment infrastructure.

2023 Journal of Advance Research in Food Agriculture and Environmental Science (ISSN 2208-2417)
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Environmental Pollution by the Fast Fashion: Current Status and Prospects

This review examines the environmental footprint of fast fashion — mass clothing production that generates enormous textile waste, synthetic fiber shedding, and water pollution. It is relevant to microplastics because synthetic garment washing is one of the largest sources of microfiber pollution entering waterways, though the paper focuses on industry-level sustainability responses rather than quantifying microplastic release specifically.

2023 Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers 10 citations
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The Environmental Impacts of Fast Fashion on Water Quality: A Systematic Review

This systematic review documents how fast fashion contributes to water pollution, including the release of synthetic microfibers — a major source of microplastic contamination. The fashion industry produces about 20% of global wastewater, and these microfibers can end up in drinking water and food sources.

2022 Water 202 citations
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Unveiling the microplastic crisis: Insights into Bangladesh's aquatic ecosystems - origins, impact, and solutions

This review examines the growing microplastic crisis in Bangladesh's rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters, finding that the country's rapid urbanization and limited waste management have led to widespread contamination. Microplastics were documented in water, sediment, and fish across multiple Bangladeshi water systems. Since over 160 million people in Bangladesh depend on these water resources for drinking, farming, and fishing, the contamination poses a significant public health concern.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 18 citations
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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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Fibras Sintéticas como um tipo de microplástico: caminhos para o setor têxtil atuar no combate ao lixo no mar

This Brazilian doctoral thesis examines synthetic fiber release from textile laundering as a major source of microplastic pollution in waterways and the ocean. The work reviews textile parameters affecting fiber release and analyzes certification and regulatory strategies that the textile sector could adopt to reduce marine fiber litter.

2023
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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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The impact of fast fashion on the environment and climate change

This paper examines how fast fashion's rapid production cycles and disposable consumer culture contribute to growing environmental impacts including carbon emissions, water pollution, and textile waste. The disposal of fast fashion clothing releases synthetic microfibers and eventually contributes to microplastic pollution in soils and waterways.

2023 Symposium of Literature Culture and Communication (SYLECTION) 2022 2 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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Fast Fashion and Sustainability Challenges: A Critical Review with Insights from Cyprus

This review examined the environmental impacts of fast fashion, focusing on water and chemical pollution, carbon emissions, and microfiber release, with a case study perspective on Cyprus. The authors argued that fast fashion's business model is fundamentally incompatible with environmental sustainability goals.

2025 Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology
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Plastic pollution in Bangladesh: A review on current status emphasizing the impacts on environment and public health

This review assessed plastic pollution in Bangladesh — including its magnitude, sources, and health and environmental consequences — and found that microplastic contamination is widespread but poorly monitored, with limited national policy response relative to the scale of the problem.

2020 Environmental Engineering Research 115 citations
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Deciphering the connection between the informal plastic recycling industry and the microplastic pollution in the Buriganga River

Researchers examined the connection between informal plastic recycling operations and microplastic pollution in the Buriganga River in Bangladesh. The study addresses a significant knowledge gap about microplastic contamination sources in developing regions, where informal waste processing may be a major contributor to aquatic plastic pollution.

2025 Environmental Science Advances 1 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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Occurrences, sources, fate and impacts of plastic on aquatic organisms and human health in global perspectives: What Bangladesh can do in future?

This review provides a comprehensive overview of plastic and microplastic pollution in aquatic environments globally, with a specific focus on the situation in Bangladesh. Researchers compiled evidence on the sources, fate, and biological impacts of plastic pollution on aquatic organisms ranging from plankton to fish, as well as potential human health risks. The study concludes with recommendations for waste management strategies and future research priorities tailored to Bangladesh's specific environmental and economic challenges.

2023 Environmental Geochemistry and Health 21 citations
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Microplastics pollution in Bangladesh: current scenario and future research perspective

Microplastics have been found throughout Bangladesh's aquatic and terrestrial environments, where they threaten biodiversity and enter the food chain. This review synthesizes the available evidence and calls for stronger national monitoring programs and policies given Bangladesh's vulnerability to plastic pollution from its dense population and major rivers.

2019 Chemistry and Ecology 38 citations
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Current scenario and challenges of plastic pollution in Bangladesh: a focus on farmlands and terrestrial ecosystems

Researchers reviewed the sources, dispersion routes, and environmental consequences of plastic waste across global and Bangladesh-specific contexts, finding that inadequate infrastructure and limited resources make plastic pollution — including microplastics entering agricultural soils, marine environments, and food chains — an especially acute threat in developing countries.

2022 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 44 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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Reconciling industrialization and environmental protection for sustainable development in Bangladesh: The textile and apparel industry case

This paper analyzed the Bangladesh textile and apparel industry's path toward reconciling rapid industrialization with environmental protection, identifying policy measures needed to reduce pollution while sustaining economic growth.

2023 European Journal of Sustainable Development Research 5 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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Exploración de la corrupción textil transnacional: ¿Excepcionalidad o norma sistémica?

This Spanish paper analyzes corruption and regulatory failures in the transnational textile industry, focusing on how global supply chains evade accountability for labor and environmental violations. The fashion industry is a major source of microplastic pollution through synthetic fiber shedding during laundry.

2018 Revista Empresa y Humanismo 21 citations
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Microplastic Pollution in Bangladesh: A Review of Ecological and Biochemical Impacts

This review summarized the current state of microplastic pollution in Bangladesh, covering occurrence across water, soil, seafood, and air, as well as documented ecological and biochemical health impacts. The authors identify Bangladesh's rapid urbanization and poor waste management as key drivers of its disproportionate microplastic burden.

2025 Ecological Risk and Security Research
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Aquatic Microplastic Pollution Control Strategies: Sustainable Degradation Techniques, Resource Recovery, and Recommendations for Bangladesh

This review compiled existing microplastic removal and degradation technologies relevant to aquatic environments, with a focus on developing sustainable management strategies for South Asian countries like Bangladesh that face severe microplastic pollution but lack effective regulation and treatment infrastructure. The authors propose a green, context-appropriate framework for controlling aquatic microplastic contamination.

2022 Water 54 citations