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ClearSustainability Challenges of the Textile Industry
This review examines the environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges facing the global textile industry, including high water consumption, chemical pollution, labor exploitation, and the compounding effects of fast fashion on waste generation and resource depletion. The authors argue that addressing these interconnected challenges requires a multidimensional approach spanning supply chain transparency, regulatory reform, and shifts in consumer behavior.
Evaluating the environmental impacts of textile and fashion industries
This review evaluated the environmental impacts of the global textile and fashion industries, finding that resource overconsumption, water pollution, synthetic fiber microplastic release, and vast waste generation make these sectors major drivers of ecosystem degradation.
Towards Sustainable Textiles for a Safer Planet: Main Topics
This review critically examines sustainability claims in the textile industry, arguing that despite advances in fiber development and recycling, true sustainability requires addressing microplastic shedding, energy use, and resource depletion throughout the full textile lifecycle. The authors distinguish between genuine sustainability and greenwashing.
Textile Waste Recycling: Emerging Technologies, Environmental Challenges, and Sustainable Solutions
This review synthesizes current knowledge on textile waste recycling, covering mechanical, chemical, and biological recycling technologies alongside environmental challenges and sustainability trade-offs. The authors highlight microfiber shedding and hazardous dye contamination as key barriers to effective textile circularity, and identify emerging solutions including enzymatic processing and closed-loop fiber-to-fiber recycling.
Clothing and Textile Sustainability
This review examines sustainability challenges facing the global clothing and textile industry, covering resource use, chemical pollution, and the growing problem of microfiber release from synthetic textiles. Synthetic garments shed millions of microplastic fibers with every wash, making the textile industry a major contributor to global microplastic pollution.
Systematic Insights into a Textile Industry: Reviewing Life Cycle Assessment and Eco-Design
This systematic review of life cycle assessments for the textile industry identified key environmental impact hotspots across the supply chain, finding that fiber production and dyeing processes dominate environmental burdens and that eco-design strategies offer the greatest improvement potential.
A literature review on environmental management in the textile industry focused on waste management.
This review examines environmental management practices in the textile industry with a focus on waste management strategies, analyzing 2,275 articles from ScienceDirect and IEEE. Researchers found that poor waste management across the textile supply chain has worsened due to rising global demand, with significant negative impacts on air, water, and soil quality.
A Review on Textile and Clothing Industry Impacts on The Environment
This review examines how textile and clothing industry operations — including dyeing, finishing, and synthetic fiber production — contribute to water, air, and soil pollution, documenting the downstream effects on aquatic organisms, human health, and plants, and evaluating mitigation approaches across the industry's environmental impact categories.
Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries
Researchers conducted a 20-year systematic review of sustainability in the fashion and textile industry, identifying consumer behavior, circular economy practices, and supply chain transparency as the three main research themes. The review highlights that synthetic textile fibers — a major source of microplastic pollution — are embedded in a complex industry that still lacks coherent sustainability standards across its global supply chains.
Gaps, challenges and drivers for environmentally sustainable textile and garment manufacturing in India
This is a policy and sustainability study reviewing the challenges and opportunities for environmentally sustainable textile manufacturing in India; it is not a microplastics research paper, though synthetic textile production is indirectly linked to microfiber pollution.
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.
Trends, Problems and Prospects for Textıle Production in Future
This article reviews trends, challenges, and future prospects for the textile industry, including the environmental impact of synthetic fibers. The widespread use of synthetic textiles is a significant source of microplastic fiber pollution entering waterways through laundry washing.
Water Pollution Hazards and Toxicity Caused by Textile Industries Effluent
This review examined water pollution caused by textile industry effluents, which contain dyes, heavy metals, and synthetic compounds that threaten both ecosystems and human health. The authors assess current treatment technologies and regulatory challenges in managing wastewater from one of the most water-intensive industries globally.
Navigating sustainability in textile production
This is a duplicate entry for the Bangshi River microplastic study (same as ID 2849) — the abstract content is identical.
Production waste of the textile and clothing industry in sustaindevelopment context
Researchers identified and categorized production waste streams from the textile and clothing industry, assessed their environmental impacts in a sustainable development context, and proposed waste minimization strategies in response to increasing EU regulatory pressure.
The Historicity of the Textile Industry in Brazil: Origins, Transformations and Legacies
This systematic review of the Brazilian textile industry identified advances in biotextile production and effluent treatment, but found persistent challenges including low recycling rates, microplastic generation, greenhouse gas emissions, and a lack of specific textile waste policies. The findings support the need for circular economy strategies in the textile sector.
Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities for Textile Circularity
Researchers conducted qualitative research with textile industry stakeholders to identify fundamental challenges in transitioning to a circular economy. The study highlights urgent needs including standardized definitions to prevent greenwashing, improved sorting and recycling systems for post-consumer textiles, and innovations in mechanical recycling to maintain material value and reduce environmental pollution from textile waste.
A critical review on environmental pollution caused by the textile industry
This review examines how the textile industry contributes to environmental pollution, including the release of microplastics from synthetic fibers during washing. The study highlights that non-biodegradable materials like polyester, nylon, and acrylic shed microplastic fibers that enter water systems, potentially harming marine organisms and entering the human food chain.
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.
Microplastic emissions in textile wet processing: Progress, challenges, and mitigation strategies
This review examines how textile wet processing, including dyeing and finishing operations, contributes to microplastic emissions that are more substantial in volume and chemically diverse than those from domestic laundry. Researchers found that mechanical forces, water, and chemical treatments during industrial processing release significant quantities of synthetic microfibers into wastewater. The study explores mitigation strategies including bioengineered materials, improved textile design, surface coatings, and enhanced filtration technologies.
Toxic Chemicals in Textiles and the Role of Microplastic Fibres as a Source and Vector for Chemicals to the Environment
This review examines how the chemical-intensive textile industry releases toxic substances throughout the product lifecycle, and critically evaluates the contested role of microplastic fibers as vectors for transporting chemical contaminants to biota and the broader environment.
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.
Textile Wastes: Status and Perspectives
This review examined the status and perspectives of textile waste management, noting that global fiber production exceeds 110 million tons annually and generates enormous waste volumes as population growth and improved living standards drive textile consumption. The study assessed current disposal pathways, recycling challenges, and the environmental burden of textile waste including microfiber pollution.
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.