Sustainable knowledge from consumer perspective addressing microfibre pollution

Yan, Songyi; Henninger, Claudia E.; Jones, Celina; McCormick, Helen

doi:10.1108/jfmm-08-2019-0181

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“…In the related literature, a dearth (Yan et al 2020) has been observed to address consumers' knowledge and EC while mapping their garment purchases and consumption. None of the sources recorded the above-stated relationship in the case of denim jeans.…”

Section: Consumer Knowledge and Ecological Concernsmentioning

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Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism

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Every pair of denim jeans produced contributes 33.4 kg of CO 2 into the atmosphere, consumes 3781 L of water, and occupies 12 m 2 of land to support its production. The consumption patterns and consumption behaviour of consumers are both vital determinants of their environmental performance and impact. This paper examines the environmental concerns, production knowledge, and related cognitive measures of consumers by mapping their intentions in the process of buying denim jeans. Consumers of denim jeans in mainland China were taken as a sample to achieve our research objective. Specifically, 1392 respondents were quantitatively investigated. The empirical results indicate that production knowledge, the ascription of responsibility, buying attitude, and personal norms are dominant factors in explaining consumers' buying intentions when purchasing denim jeans. Furthermore, we find that the relationship between cognitive factors and buying intentions is mediated by affordability. This study highlights the immediate need to measure the denim industry's ecological footprint (during the production phase) and communicate this to critical industry stakeholders (i.e. macro-level forces, environmentalists, current and potential consumers). The intention is to redefine the purchasing behaviour of future consumers of denim jeans.

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Section: Consumer Knowledge and Ecological Concernsmentioning

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Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism

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“…The majority of consumers are not conscious of acquiring products containing MP (Henderson and Green, 2020 ; Ojinnaka and Aw, 2020 ). Yan et al ( 2020 ) found that people are unaware of MP due to their invisibility. Moreover, because of their small size, MP are not easily detectable in the environment; thus, they have only relatively recently been considered as an emerging contaminant (Katsnelson, 2015 ).…”

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Greater willingness to reduce microplastics consumption in Mexico than in Spain supports the importance of legislation on the use of plastics

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IntroductionMicroplastics (MP) threaten all organisms worldwide. MP are produced directly as microbeads in cosmetics and hygiene products, or indirectly from breakage of larger plastics. The control of MP requires consumers' engagement to refuse products containing microbeads.MethodsWe conducted a survey on 572 university students from Mexico and Spain, two countries where microbeads are not banned yet. More strict laws for plastic control areenforced in Mexico than in Spain.ResultsControlling for age and education, despite knowing less about MP, Mexicans checked for microbeads on product labels more frequently than Spaniards, and desired to reduce MP consumption more. A stronger correlation between individual awareness and willingness of MP control was found for Mexican than for Spanish students.DiscussionPerhaps more strict legislation against plastics creates an environment favorable to MP control. Unclear statement of microbeads on labels was the main reason for not checking microbead contents; environmental education and a stricter control of plastics and MP were identified as necessary policy changes in the two countries. Corporation engagement on clearer product labeling is also suggested.

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“…Activewear clothing is made from a range of different materials often comprising of a mix between synthetic (human made) and organic depending on the support needed, sweat-wicking properties, and breathability (ÖzdIl and Anand, 2014;Josephson, 2015). Research has shown that the synthetic materials within activewear (and other synthetic/mixed material clothing) shed microfibers (a type of microplastic) into the laundry water every time they are washed (O'Loughlin, 2018;Ross, 2019;Herweyers et al, 2020;Yan et al, 2020). Once laundered, the activewear microplastic-water is treated at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP).…”

Section: "I Do the Sniff Test … And Know They Really Need To Be Washed": Laundering Activewearmentioning

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Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices

Brice¹,

Thorpe²

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Sport and fitness have long been linked with healthy lifestyles, yet most sporting events and consumption practices are highly detrimental to the environment. While academics have examined the harmful effects of sporting mega-events and the production and consumption of sport equipment and clothing, there has been less engagement with the “mundane,” everyday activities of consuming, laundering, and recycling of fitness objects. In this paper, we explore the potential in feminist new materialisms for rethinking the complex relationships between sport, fitness, and the environment. In particular, we explain how our engagement with Karen Barad's theory of agential realism led us to rethink women's habitual fitness practices as connected to environmental degradation. Working with Barad's concept of entanglement, we came to notice new human-clothing-environment relationships, focusing on how athleisure clothing itself is an active, vital force that intra-acts with other non-human (and human) matter within the environment. Adopting a diffractive methodology that included reading interviews with women about their activewear practices, our own experiences, new materialist theory, and environmental literature through each other, we focus on two examples that emerged through this process: laundering and disposal practices. Through these examples, we demonstrate the ways in which new materialisms encouraged us to move toward non-anthropocentric understandings of the sport-environment relationship and toward new ethical practices in our everyday fitness lifestyles.

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Sustainable knowledge from consumer perspective addressing microfibre pollution

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism

Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism

Greater willingness to reduce microplastics consumption in Mexico than in Spain supports the importance of legislation on the use of plastics

Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices

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