UA Wear and Share: A Campus Wide Clothing Swap A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing
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. Th...
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ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-6138112016-06-22T03:01:23Z UA Wear and Share: A Campus Wide Clothing Swap A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing Zermeno, Zola Iuliano, Joseph E. 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 text Electronic Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613811 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/613811 en_US Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by 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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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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UA Wear and Share: A Campus Wide Clothing Swap A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing |
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UA Wear and Share: A Campus Wide Clothing Swap A Case Study on how to Engage Students in Sharing their Unused Clothing |
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