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ClearThe Intersection of Fashion and Climate: A Comparative Examination of the Australian Fashion and Textile Industry's Approach to Climate Change
Researchers conducted a comparative examination of the Australian and international fashion industry's environmental impact, focusing on textile waste, synthetic fiber microplastic shedding, and carbon emissions. The study found that Australia generates significant fashion waste relative to its population and that policy frameworks for textile sustainability lag behind leading jurisdictions.
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.
Life cycle assessment in fashion industry: a systematic review
This systematic review of life cycle assessments in the fashion industry (2010-2024) found persistent methodological inconsistencies that undermine the reliability of sustainability claims. The review identifies microplastic emissions from textiles as a growing but poorly incorporated impact category, highlighting a gap in understanding the full environmental footprint of clothing.
Toward Economically Efficient Carbon Reduction: Contrasting Greening Plastic Supply Chains with Alternative Energy Policy Approaches
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it compares the carbon-reduction potential and cost-effectiveness of recycled plastics, bioplastics, and virgin plastics within supply chains, finding recycled plastics offer the best low-cost carbon reduction despite quality concerns.
Scenarios for reducing the environmental impacts of the UK clothing economy
Researchers modeled scenarios for reducing the environmental footprint of the UK clothing economy over the next two decades, where per-capita consumption is double the global average. They found that both production changes and shifts in consumer behavior are needed to bring clothing impacts within planetary boundaries. The study suggests that fast fashion's growth has driven dramatic increases in carbon emissions and material consumption that current circular economy efforts have been too slow to address.
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.
Study on the Spatial Pattern of the Carbon Footprint of China’s E-Commerce Express Packaging Considering Embodied Carbon Transfer
Despite its title referencing e-commerce packaging, this paper studies the carbon footprint of China's express delivery packaging industry — not microplastic pollution. It quantifies CO2 emissions across the packaging lifecycle and traces carbon transfers between provinces, finding that plastic packaging generates roughly twice the upstream emissions of paper packaging. This paper is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
Modelling microplastic fibre emissions from synthetic textiles: An Australian case
Researchers modeled microplastic fiber emissions from synthetic textiles across Australia, estimating emission quantities, identifying geographic hotspots, and tracing fibres to their environmental receiving compartments. The model found that domestic laundry is the dominant emission source, with most fibres ultimately reaching wastewater treatment systems or water bodies.
Standards of sustainability in the fashion industry
This review examines sustainability standards in the fashion industry, which accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, significant water use, and over 85% of textiles going to landfill annually, and explores how washing synthetic clothing releases microplastics into waterways. The authors assess regulatory frameworks, voluntary standards, and the gap between the industry's environmental impact and current sustainability commitments.
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.
Modeling marine microplastic emissions in Life Cycle Assessment: characterization factors for biodegradable polymers and their application in a textile case study
Researchers developed new methods for measuring the environmental impact of biodegradable plastic microplastic emissions using life cycle assessment. They found that microplastic degradation rates may be overestimated when based on data from larger plastic pieces, and that microplastic emissions could account for up to 30% of the total environmental impact in a textile case study. The work aims to improve the accuracy of environmental comparisons between conventional and biodegradable materials.
Business strategy and innovative models in the fashion industry: Clothing leasing as a driver of sustainability
Researchers explored clothing leasing as a circular business model that could reduce the fashion industry's environmental footprint, which ranks among the largest sources of global pollution. Using multicriteria analysis, they evaluated the sustainability potential of leasing compared to the traditional fast-fashion model of producing and discarding garments. The study suggests that leasing-based models could meaningfully reduce textile waste and resource consumption in the fashion sector.
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.
Calculating the Environmental Impact Reduction Due to Extended Lifespan of Clothing Through Clothing Swaps
Researchers developed and implemented an algorithm for calculating the environmental impact reduction achieved through clothing swaps on a peer-to-peer sharing platform, quantifying how extended garment lifespan reduces textile waste and associated microplastic fiber emissions.
The Plastic Intensity of Industries in the USA: The Devil Wears Plastic
Researchers used US input-output data to calculate the plastic intensity of 415 non-plastic industries across 13 polymer types, finding that clothing and fabric manufacturing are the most plastic-intensive sectors, a pattern consistent with the prevalence of textile-derived microplastics in waterways and suggesting that consumer-facing plastic bag policies fail to address the most significant pollution pathways.
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.
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.
Optimization of environmental performance in domestic tumble dryers: A proposed solution for sustainable textile drying
Despite its title referencing tumble dryer sustainability, this paper studies energy efficiency and carbon footprint optimization in household clothes dryers — not microplastic pollution. It examines how drum speed, load size, and airflow affect energy use and carbon emissions and does not address microplastic fiber shedding from synthetic textiles.
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.
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.
Ecodesign of polyester fabrics to limit the release of microplastic fibre fragments during the first wash
Researchers investigated how textile production parameters affect the release of microplastic fibre fragments from polyester fabrics during the first wash, aiming to develop ecodesign strategies for the textile industry which is responsible for 35% of microplastics released into oceans.
Mapping Flows, Stocks, Plastic Emissions, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Polyurethanes: Decoding Challenges and Pollution Prevention Pathways in China
Researchers mapped material flows, stocks, plastic emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the polyurethane life cycle, identifying production, use, and end-of-life stages as key hotspots for both microplastic release and carbon emissions.
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.
An Overview of Management Status and Recycling Strategies for Plastic Packaging Waste in China
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper reviews Chinese policy and recycling technology for plastic packaging waste, focusing on regulatory frameworks, carbon emissions, and recycling infrastructure rather than microplastic contamination or health risks.