UA Wear and Share: A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing

Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project === The way in which clothing, the second largest consumer sector, is produced and consumed poses a variety of environmental threats. A huge driver of unsustainable clothing production is the fast fashion industry where clothing styles are prod...

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Main Author: Zermeno, Zola
Other Authors: College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608354
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spelling ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-6083542017-02-18T03:00:40Z UA Wear and Share: A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing Zermeno, Zola College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Helm, Sabrina PhD Blowers, Paul PhD Iuliano, Joey Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project The way in which clothing, the second largest consumer sector, is produced and consumed poses a variety of environmental threats. A huge driver of unsustainable clothing production is the fast fashion industry where clothing styles are produced, consumed and disposed of at alarmingly quick rates. This type of clothing production is supported by societies need for new and trendy clothing. A demographic affected by this false need of new clothing are college aged students, thus college campuses and universities make have huge potential to be a part of a solution. In recent years the sharing economy has become a popular form of trade. Large-scale campus clothing swaps may be a method through which the environmental footprint of students’ livelihoods can be reduced. 2016-05-04 text http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608354 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/608354 en_US Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. The University of Arizona.
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description Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project === The way in which clothing, the second largest consumer sector, is produced and consumed poses a variety of environmental threats. A huge driver of unsustainable clothing production is the fast fashion industry where clothing styles are produced, consumed and disposed of at alarmingly quick rates. This type of clothing production is supported by societies need for new and trendy clothing. A demographic affected by this false need of new clothing are college aged students, thus college campuses and universities make have huge potential to be a part of a solution. In recent years the sharing economy has become a popular form of trade. Large-scale campus clothing swaps may be a method through which the environmental footprint of students’ livelihoods can be reduced.
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