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Advancing sustainable fashion with 3D and AR technologies: a virtual fashion film approach

This paper is not about microplastics; it investigates how 3D design software and augmented reality tools can be used in virtual fashion films to promote sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing material waste.

2026
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Virtual Voices for a Sustainable Future: A Systematic Scoping Review on Virtual Influencers

This research review looked at studies about virtual influencers (computer-generated characters on social media) who promote environmental messages like buying eco-friendly products. The researchers found that these digital personalities are becoming popular tools for encouraging people to make more sustainable choices, especially in China and the United States. While this field is still new, virtual influencers might offer a fresh way to motivate people to adopt greener lifestyles and reduce environmental harm that could affect human health.

2026 Sustainability
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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.

2025 Sustainability 6 citations
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How can the fashion industry be sustainable? The use of immersive technology in fashion design for innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability

This study examines how immersive digital technologies can help the fashion industry adopt sustainable practices, exploring how digitised design and production processes can reduce environmental impacts including textile microplastic pollution.

2024 Wintec Research Archive (Waikato Institute of Technology)
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Virtual versus sustainable fashion: a systematic literature review

This systematic literature review examined the degree of convergence between virtual fashion -- digitally rendered clothing without physical equivalents -- and sustainable fashion, assessing whether virtual garments offer a meaningful pathway to reducing the environmental footprint of the apparel industry.

2023 Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology Organization and Management Series 3 citations
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Designing motion graphics as a zero waste lifestyle campaign media for the Indonesian people

Researchers developed motion graphics as a campaign medium to promote zero-waste lifestyles among Indonesian people, responding to the surge in plastic waste resulting from COVID-19 social restrictions and increased online commerce. The study examined plastic waste impacts on the Gorontalo coastal ecosystem and designed visual communication materials to raise awareness about microplastic pollution entering the food chain.

2022 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2 citations
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Progressing but also degrading: The representation of environmental destruction and life in the future in WALL-E

This study analyzes the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E as an educational tool, examining how it uses animated storytelling to portray the consequences of unchecked consumerism, plastic and electronic waste accumulation, and environmental destruction to engage viewers in ecological thinking.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences 1 citations
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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.

2022 Academic Society for Appropriate Technology 6 citations
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Learning Effects of Augmented Reality and Game-Based Learning for Science Teaching in Higher Education in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development

Researchers tested an augmented reality game-based learning environment called 'Beat the Beast' to teach university students about microplastics across biology, chemistry, and engineering disciplines. A study of 203 pre-service teachers compared settings with and without augmented reality and game elements to measure effects on motivation, knowledge, and sustainability outcomes. The findings contribute to understanding how emerging educational technologies can support interdisciplinary science teaching about environmental topics.

2023 Sustainability 31 citations
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Building Bridges to the Future: Synergies Between Art and Technology in Communicating Urban Evolution Under Climate Change

This study examines how data visualization and interactive art can be combined to communicate complex urban climate change data to diverse audiences, exploring synergies between artistic approaches and scientific information design to improve public understanding of environmental challenges.

2025 Sustainability
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A Study On Creating Awareness Of Plastic Usage To Promote Sustainable Practices For A Greener Future

This study examines educational interventions and awareness campaigns aimed at reducing plastic consumption and promoting sustainable practices, evaluating their effectiveness in shifting public attitudes and behaviors toward a lower-plastic future.

2025 International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
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The Effects of Sensory Cues on Immersive Experiences for Fostering Technology-Assisted Sustainable Behavior: A Systematic Review

This systematic review found that multisensory cues in virtual reality and gaming environments significantly enhance immersive experiences and increase adoption of sustainable behaviors. Visual and auditory feedback were the most commonly studied modalities, while haptic and olfactory cues remain underexplored but show high potential.

2022 Behavioral Sciences 34 citations
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Sustainability in K-12 education: how can schools support students to address challenges of environmental sustainability?

This action research study examines how K-12 schools can promote environmental sustainability, finding that successful programs combine student education, school-wide practices, and community engagement to reduce environmental impact.

2023
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Advancements in Environmental Management Strategies and Sustainable Practices for Construction Industry: A Comprehensive Review

This review examines the latest environmental management strategies and sustainable practices being adopted by the construction industry. Researchers discuss innovations in sustainable materials, energy-efficient building methods, waste reduction, and renewable energy integration. The study highlights how stakeholders from construction companies to governments are working together to promote greener building practices.

2023 International Journal of Civil Engineering 80 citations
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A Study on Environmentally Sustainable Interaction Design Guided by User Behavior: Addressing Unsustainable Consumption

Researchers developed a hybrid physical-digital interaction system using gamification, narrative design, and mixed-reality technologies to guide pro-environmental consumer behavior, constructing a closed-loop system that transforms abstract environmental responsibility into tangible participatory practices.

2025 Communications in Humanities Research
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Artificial intelligence and sustainability in the fashion industry: a review from 2010 to 2022

This review examines how artificial intelligence technologies have been applied to sustainability challenges in the fashion industry from 2010 to 2022. Researchers found that AI tools show promise for addressing issues like textile waste, supply chain inefficiency, and pollution, though broader adoption is needed to meaningfully advance the industry's sustainability goals.

2023 SN Applied Sciences 44 citations
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A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education

This paper presents a roadmap for integrating sustainability principles into software engineering education, outlining how curricula can be redesigned to equip future developers with the knowledge to build environmentally and socially responsible software systems.

2024 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 9 citations
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Systematic literature review: a typology of Sustainability Literacy and Environmental Literacy

This systematic literature review develops a typology of sustainability literacy and environmental education frameworks, mapping how different educational approaches define and measure student competencies related to ecological awareness and sustainable behavior.

2025 Frontiers in Education 4 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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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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The Role of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in Driving Organizational Development and Environmental Sustainability

This review analyzed 67 studies on Environmental Management Systems to assess their role in driving organizational development and environmental sustainability. It found that EMS combined with tools like ISO 14031 and Life Cycle Inventory can effectively help organizations achieve global sustainability goals and reduce environmental impacts, including those related to plastic waste and microplastic pollution.

2025 American Journal of Environment and Climate 2 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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Environmental Management and Its Impact on CSR Activities in the Field of Sustainable Development

This is a corporate social responsibility and sustainability study focused on the textile and clothing industry's environmental management practices; it is not a microplastics research paper.

2023 TalTech journal of European studies/TalTech journal of European studies. 7 citations
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Nurses as agents for achieving environmentally sustainable health systems: A bibliometric analysis

This bibliometric analysis examined the role of nurses in achieving environmentally sustainable health systems, finding a lack of experimental data and policies and highlighting that nurses should be included in sustainability decision-making within healthcare.

2022 Journal of Nursing Management 28 citations