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ClearFast fashion revolution: Unveiling the path to sustainable style in the era of fast fashion
Researchers examined the relationship between fashion orientation and fast fashion purchasing behavior, including how attitudes toward sustainable clothing consumption moderate these choices. They found that fashion orientation strongly influences purchase intention and actual buying behavior, but that sustainable clothing awareness can temper fast fashion consumption. The study highlights the environmental costs of fast fashion, including microplastic-generating textile waste, and calls for greater consumer education.
Corporate Social Responsibility In The Apparel Industry: A Multiple Case Study Analysis
This thesis reviewed corporate social responsibility reporting in the apparel industry, examining how clothing brands communicate their environmental and social commitments. Since synthetic textiles shed microplastic fibers during washing, the apparel industry's environmental responsibility is directly relevant to reducing microplastic pollution.
A Study on the Awareness and Perception towards Sustainable Fashion
This paper is not directly relevant to microplastics; it surveys university students' awareness and attitudes toward sustainable fashion and the broader environmental impacts of the textile industry, including waste and water contamination.
Exploring Consumer Engagement in Response to Sustainable Social Media Content and Brand Identity of Fashion Brands
This marketing study examines how sustainable social media content and brand identity affect consumer engagement with fashion brands. While not a science paper, consumer behavior toward sustainable fashion is relevant to demand for lower-microfiber synthetic textiles.
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.
Human Perceptions of Recycled Textiles and Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review
A systematic literature review of 100+ studies on recycled textiles and circular fashion found that consumers generally hold positive attitudes toward sustainability benefits but are deterred by perceived quality risks, with emotional and functional value perceptions varying by product type.
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.
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.
Sustainability of Second-Hand Fast Fashion: Sentiment and Content Analysis on Consumer Attitudes on Social Media
This paper is not about microplastics — it analyzes consumer sentiment on social media toward second-hand fast fashion resale platforms and whether they are perceived as genuinely sustainable.
Sustainable Fashion—Rationale and Policies
This review examines the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry — from synthetic fiber microplastic pollution and water contamination to labor exploitation — and surveys emerging global policies aimed at driving the sector toward greater sustainability.
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.
Corporate Social Responsibility Influencing Sustainability within the Fashion Industry. A Systematic Review
This systematic review of CSR in the fashion industry found that sustainability efforts focus primarily on eco-friendly production, supply chain innovation, and worker safety. Actions linking CSR to sustainability operate across micro, meso, and macro levels, with brand equity, culture, supply chain management, and human rights emerging as key themes.
Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World: Promoting Sustainability and Responsibility
This study examines the "slow fashion" movement as a sustainable alternative to fast fashion, analyzing how different business models, consumer behaviors, and policy frameworks can shift clothing production and consumption toward more responsible practices. Slow fashion is directly relevant to reducing textile microfiber pollution, since synthetic clothing is a major source of microplastics in wastewater.
Consuming and retailing fashion: South Asian diaspora negotiating clothing practices, identities and community making in Glasgow
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a cultural anthropology study examining fashion retail practices and identity construction among South Asian diaspora communities in Glasgow.
Role of Consumer Attitudes and Policies in Increasing Sustainable Buying Habits in the Fashion Industry
Researchers surveyed consumers across diverse regions and demographics to assess attitudes toward sustainable fashion purchasing, finding that policies, financial barriers, geographic setting, and physical barriers all influence willingness to choose sustainable over fast fashion products.
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.
Exploring Consumer Engagement in Response to Sustainable Social Media Content and Brand Identity of Fashion Brands
Researchers investigated how sustainable social media content and brand identity affect consumer engagement in the fashion industry, finding that social media posts alone are insufficient to drive meaningful engagement without a coherent sustainable brand identity.
The Business of Sustainability in Fashion: Following the Threads
This book examines how the fashion industry can pursue sustainability, exploring the interconnected environmental, economic, and social challenges of making apparel production more responsible and reducing plastic fiber pollution.
Drivers of green purchasing behaviour: a systematic review and a research agenda
This systematic review of 41 studies found that environmental concern, health consciousness, social influence, and perceived value are the strongest drivers of green purchasing behavior. While not directly about microplastics, the findings are relevant to understanding what motivates consumers to choose plastic-free or reduced-plastic products.
Mi̇kroplasti̇klere Yöneli̇k Tüketi̇ci̇ Tepki̇leri̇: Bi̇r Uluslararasi Pazar Araştirmasi
Researchers investigated consumer attitudes toward products containing microplastics and their effects on social responsibility, purchase intention, and sustainable consumption intention among 93 participants in Austria using structural equation modeling. The findings link consumer awareness of microplastic content to measurable shifts in purchasing behavior and sustainability-oriented intentions.
AI, Fashion, and Climate Conscious Consumers Promoting Sustainable Consumption Through Intelligent System
This research review explains how artificial intelligence (AI) could help reduce fashion's harmful impact on the environment, including cutting down on microplastic pollution that can affect human health. AI tools can help shoppers make better choices by showing which clothes are made sustainably and last longer, potentially reducing the tiny plastic fibers that shed from synthetic clothes into water and air. However, the authors warn that AI must be used responsibly to truly help the environment rather than just appearing to do so.
Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry: Managing Waste and Ethical Labor Practices
Despite its title referencing microplastics, this paper studies sustainability challenges in the fast fashion industry — not microplastic pollution specifically. It examines consumer behavior, ethical labor practices, textile waste management, and greenwashing, with no substantive focus on microplastic fiber emissions or health impacts. It is not directly relevant to microplastic science.
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.
Research on Recycling Design of Clothing Textiles Based on Sustainable Development
This review examines sustainable design strategies for recycling and reusing clothing and textiles, covering the full lifecycle from design to end-of-life disposal. Textile recycling is relevant to microplastic pollution because synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon shed microplastic fibers during washing.