The environmental price of fast fashion
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The increased accessibility and consumption of fast fashion and mass-produced furniture engender plastics, petrochemicals, and waste that are damaging to the environment.
“However, the amount of plastics, petrochemicals and waste that are engendered by the increased accessibility of these items and therefore their increased consumption are damaging to the environment [81].”
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- Authors
- Niinimäki, K., Peters, G., Dahlbo, H., Perry, P., Rissanen, T., & Gwilt, A.
- Affiliations
- Aalto University (FI)
- Finnish Environment Institute (FI)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- The New School (US)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Niinimäki, Kirsi
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
- Published
- 2020-04-07
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 189-200
- ISSN
- 2662-138X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3016024765
- Cited by
- 2,034
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 499 · 2025: 481 · 2024: 433 · 2023: 302 · 2022: 200 · 2021: 102 · 2020: 17
- FWCI
- 59.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2020-04-23)
- Open access
- green
- research.aalto.fi
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (publishedVersion)
- Aaltodoc (Aalto University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cultural and Historical Studies
- Social Sciences › Development › Software Engineering and Design Patterns
- Keywords
- fast fashion, clothing consumption, natural resource use, fashion industry, environmental policy, consumer behavior
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