Upcycling Awareness Research Fashion Clothing Goods for Korean University Students

Abstract

: This study investigated the perception of upcycling for sensitive university students in regards to fashion trends. It was conducted through questionnaires delivered to male and female college students who majored in clothing related subjects from June 2012 to June 2013 in Gwangju. The contents for this research are general details, seriousness of environmental resources, awareness of upcycle, and purchasing intention for upcycling products. Most of the respondents said that recycling of resources is absolutely necessary due to the impact of environmental pollution and the consumption of resources. On the contrary, the experience of the respondents which purchased recycling products was low. The awareness of also was low, upcycling, internal upcycling brands and internal consumption groups, however, the decisions for subsequent purchases were positive. The reasons for the unsatisfactory of upcycling of products were due to quality and price. The reaction for many upcycle goods had the best question response rate in daily supplies part; subsequently, this study suggested 3 items, apparel products, fashion accessories, and daily supplies. In addition, a group which contains people who expend more for clothing had a lower awareness of upcycle and purchasing intention than other groups that contained some people who expend less. The results of the study can be used in data that recognize the necessary of upcycle education for university students, and develop educational programs. It can also encourage the purchase of upcycle products that reduce the consumption of resources.

An exploratory study on up-cycling as the sustainable clothing life at home

“…Recognize time and energy as expenses Whereas they recognize the necessity and value of recycling and up-cycling in family clothing, they answered that too much energy and time is spent due to passive reason in practicing up-cycling. And compared with Limitation in quality We can see that quality dissatisfaction for recycling product was the biggest part, and the part of quality was the weakest in use of recycling product in the study of Choi et al (2014). Participants in this study also talked about the quality in up-cycling product, many opinions were that they cannot utilize the function of product though they do up-cycling because of insufficient hand skills, or up-cycling product is 'poor' , 'unclean' , and that the quality gets deteriorated even with up-cycling due to weak durability as the product itself used for up-cycling material are produced according to fast-use and fast-discarding.…”

“…Up-cycling is compared with down-cycling, which is recycled in manner of losing significant part of existing characteristics or merits mainly while passing through mechanical and chemical processing. On the other hand, upcycling is defined as the type of 'recycling in rise in value' (Choi et al 2014).…”

Upcycling Awareness Research Fashion Clothing Goods for Korean University Students

“…. 'Cradle to Cradle(C2C)'는 제품이 나 원료를 사용한 후 폐기하여 '무덤(Gravel)'으로 향하게 하는 것이 아니라 재탄생을 위한 '요람(Cradle)으로 되돌리자는 개념 으로 (Park, 2010;Choi & Do, 2012), 폐기물이나 쓸모없는 제품을 더 나은 품질 또는 더 높은 가치로 변환하는 과정, 즉 재활용품에 디자인을 입혀 보다 가치 높은 제품으로 탄생시키 는 가치상향형 재활용 방법이다 (Choi & Do, 2012;Son, 2011 Table 3에 제시하였다…”