Issues Surrounding Behavior towards Discarded Textiles and Garments in Ljubljana

Katarina Polajnar Horvat and Katarina Šrimpf Vendramin
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Katarina Polajnar Horvat: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Katarina Šrimpf Vendramin: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-11

Abstract: In recent years, post-consumer textile waste has become an important issue that attracts attention from activists, scientists and the media. The production and use of clothing has more than doubled in the last fifteen years due to declining costs, streamlined operations and rising consumption under the influence of fast fashion. According to research, the average European buys as much as 26 kg of textiles each year and discards 11 kg, while a very small share of post-consumer textile waste is recycled. This article presents the findings of a study on household textile waste in the capital of Ljubljana. The research showed that despite the significant declarative environmental awareness of people for sustainable behavior in the field of textile waste, the share of those decreases with exposure to actual behavior. However, there are few people who are completely uninterested in reducing textile waste, as most people are aware of the problem and pay more and more attention to it. The authors study the management of textile waste and its creation by the inhabitants of Ljubljana in the broader context of the influences of fast fashion, as well as the cultural specifics of the Slovenian society.

Keywords: textile waste; clothing; fast fashion; environmental awareness; environmental behavior; reuse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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