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Textile Waste, Ecology and Commercialism

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  • Goranka Stanic

    (School of Applied Arts and Design, Croatia)

Abstract

The area of the fashion industry has never been stronger and the consumption and purchase of clothing, fashion, sports, children's, business is constantly growing. Parts of the world do not resist the consumer mentality, which also depends on the personal attitude of the individual, and the poorer part of the world is the one that produces clothes for minimum wages. Throughout history, clothing has served to protect against the weather, beautify and last until almost complete wear and tear. It was expensive, and the average resident didn’t spend on a wardrobe like it seems today. The field of clothing is comprehensive and interesting both sociologically and psychologically and there is often an exaggeration in consumption which strengthens both production and the fall in product prices. With the fall in price, fall and quality, clothing, not fashion, because it is debatable to talk about the meaning of fashion that it had decades ago and the definition, which speeds up the process of changing the purchase and rejection of clothing. In contrast to the mass consumption of cheap clothing, there are large fashion houses with extremely unaffordable and high prices of unique items. The problem and question of ethical principles lies in piling up unnecessary clothes, buying supplies and discarding that same wardrobe in a few months. Textile waste can be recycled in organized societies, and the opposite ends up in landfills that, like any other landfill, pollute the environment. Conscientious societies or individuals will manage their clothing sensibly, but so-called "shopping" often occurs, especially among women.

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  • Goranka Stanic, 2020. "Textile Waste, Ecology and Commercialism," Scientia Moralitas Conference Proceedings 014gs, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
  • Handle: RePEc:smo:scmowp:014gs
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