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Consumer Awareness and Textile Sustainability

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Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Chief Sustainability Officer, Green Story Inc., Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Chapters deal with sustainability of a variety of textile materials
  • Discusses how consumer awareness of sustainable practices or lack thereof impacts textile purchasing decisions
  • Discusses how social media impacts consumer awareness

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Measuring Textile (Un)sustainability to Raise Purchasing Choices Awareness: Theoretical Background

    • Maria Pia Spinelli, Giovanni Lagioia, Christian Bux, Vera Amicarelli
    Pages 1-14

  3. Consumers’ Sustainable Clothing Consumption Practices: Adopting the Principles of Voluntary Simplicity

    • M. A. Olwoch, N. C. Sonnenberg, T. L. Reis, H. Taljaard-Swart
    Pages 15-31

  4. Toward Increasing Public Awareness of Cellulose-Based Textiles with Improved Sustainability

    • Snežana Stanković
    Pages 33-44

  5. A Long-Time Approach to Promote Sustainability Awareness

    • Carolyn Hardaker, Buddy Penfold, Sally Gaukrodger-Cowan
    Pages 45-73

  6. The Influence of Social Media Usage on Consumers’ Sustainable Clothing Consumption Practices

    • M. A. Olwoch, N. C. Sonnenberg, H. Taljaard-Swart
    Pages 75-100

  7. Measuring Textile (Un)sustainability to Raise Purchasing Choices Awareness: The Case of Cotton Fabrics

    • Maria Pia Spinelli, Giovanni Lagioia, Christian Bux, Vera Amicarelli
    Pages 101-116

  8. Consumer Awareness and Textile Sustainability: Sensory Evaluation of Hemp Textiles by Consumers as a Prospective Market Research Method for New Textile Products

    • Snežana Stanković
    Pages 117-135

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 137-138
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About this book

This contributed volume discusses how consumer awareness of textile sustainability can lead to a more sustainable textile supply chain. From the initial purchase of a textile to its care and longevity, consumer behaviors are at the core of consumption associated with the textile industry. Making consumers aware of the environmental impacts of the clothing products they buy help them to choose the best alternative which has the lowers footprints and also enable them to help the entire textile sector to become sustainable. In addition, making them aware of environmental footprints of textile products from cradle to grave, make them aware of how best they can take care of their products during use and disposal phases and how they can help to preserve the planet with their earnest efforts to reduce the environmental impacts in their boundary, i.e. the use and disposal phases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chief Sustainability Officer, Green Story Inc., Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editor

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 150 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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