The fashion industry has significant environmental impacts due to its rapid growth, trends, manufacturing processes, and waste. It relies on a linear "take-make-waste" model. The concept of a circular economy (CE) aims to address these issues by promoting reuse, repair, recycling and resource-sharing to maximize product lifecycles. While CE principles could help reduce environmental impacts, the fashion industry still largely operates through fast, linear processes. This literature review analyzes the growing body of work on circular fashion to evaluate its theories, applications and effectiveness in transitioning the industry to more sustainable practices.
The fashion industry has significant environmental impacts due to its rapid growth, trends, manufacturing processes, and waste. It relies on a linear "take-make-waste" model. The concept of a circular economy (CE) aims to address these issues by promoting reuse, repair, recycling and resource-sharing to maximize product lifecycles. While CE principles could help reduce environmental impacts, the fashion industry still largely operates through fast, linear processes. This literature review analyzes the growing body of work on circular fashion to evaluate its theories, applications and effectiveness in transitioning the industry to more sustainable practices.
The fashion industry has significant environmental impacts due to its rapid growth, trends, manufacturing processes, and waste. It relies on a linear "take-make-waste" model. The concept of a circular economy (CE) aims to address these issues by promoting reuse, repair, recycling and resource-sharing to maximize product lifecycles. While CE principles could help reduce environmental impacts, the fashion industry still largely operates through fast, linear processes. This literature review analyzes the growing body of work on circular fashion to evaluate its theories, applications and effectiveness in transitioning the industry to more sustainable practices.
The fashion industry utilizes a lot of resources, has an adverse effect
on the environment, and contributes a large amount of waste. Rapid growth and extension of the fashion industry, dynamic fashion trends, mass manufacturing at a global level, migration of production to developing nations, and landfills of trash have all considerably increased environmental challenges. The fashion industry has been under constant pressure to switch from a linear economic model to a circular economy (CE) model because it is one of the most environmentally destructive businesses. In 2014, the terms circular economy and fashion were combined, giving rise to the trendy term "circular fashion." The phrase was first used during a seminar in Sweden where the main topic was taking a more circular approach to the fashion business. By reducing waste production, promoting sustainable supply chains, and mitigating environmental impacts, CE models aim to improve the environment. By supporting zero-waste design, reuse, repairability, and resource-sharing behaviors, CE also attempts to maximize the life cycle of a product, from conception to manufacture and consumption to disposal. The fashion business, for the most part, still runs on a linear model of extracting, manufacturing, and discarding resources, especially driving fast fashion, due to the fast pace of consumption created by the industry itself, which encourages mass production at high volume and low pricing. Because of this, the sector is to blame for some of the worst environmental effects.
LITERATURE REVIEW
This study is an analysis of the rapidly expanding body of literature
on Circular Fashion (CF) that examines its theory, present applications, and evaluation of implementation. The review evaluates the conception, execution, and efficiency of CE's policies and procedures. It is carried out through a series of steps. The CF concept is first introduced and contrasted with our current linear economy, in which resources are used to produce things, which are then disposed of, and it is explained why it is crucial to move toward a regenerative sustainable industrial development with a closed loop. The guidelines for evaluating the development and execution of current CF practices are then introduced. Third, the fundamental issues and difficulties from an entrepreneurial perspective are examined using a literature study. The study concludes with some policy recommendations for future advancements, modifications, and development as a component of an inventive and entrepreneurial national level development strategy.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How are people accepting the concept of Circular Economy?
What is the future of Circular Fashion? Does the consumer have sufficient knowledge about the concept of Circular Fashion?