Post-consumer garments (PCG) wastes pose a significant concern in the textile value chain,
primarily due to their environmental impact. Over the last few decades, recycling of PCG has …

Fast changing fashion trends have led to high consumption rates of clothing, shortening of
life-spans for many fashion products and increasing amounts of textile waste. Addressing …

Value streams for collected post-consumer textiles continue to be analyzed within the global
challenge to develop and employ commercially viable, yet ethical and sustainable strategies …

The three-fold purpose of this study is to document current challenges the apparel industry
experiences in developing sustainable apparel, discover product development strategies for …

Proponents of material recycling typically point to two environmental benefits: disposal
(landfill/incinerator) reduction and primary production displacement. However, in this paper …

Clothing and textile design is a discipline of practice, scholarship, and research, sharing
many characteristics and issues with the broader discipline of design. This manuscript briefly …

This article addresses the remarkable variability across the fashion industry in how people
working in the industry define and operationalize “sustainability.” Based on in-depth …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine influence of past environment-friendly
behaviour, peer influence and green apparel knowledge in the context of organic clothing …

This study was designed as a bottom-up approach to understanding what kind of
changeable functions people desire in transformable garments by analysing a wardrobe …

Consumers' clothing disposal decisions have lasting ecological effects because the
decomposition process of certain materials may take many years. Unfortunately, in the USA …