An investigation of young fashion consumers' disposal habits

Morgan, Louise R.; Birtwistle, Grete

doi:10.1111/j.1470-6431.2009.00756.x

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“…Most of the people in US donate their used garments to professional organizations such as Goodwill and Salvation Army and to other nonprofit organizations [18]. Morgan and Birtwistle's study confirms that UK citizens have similar textiles and clothing disposal behavior to US citizens (Morgan & Birtwistle, 2009). According to this study the majority of the clothing (36 %) was given to charity shops and 7.4 % was put in textile recycling bins.…”

Section: Practices To Collect Post-consumer Textile Wastesupporting

confidence: 62%

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A Sustainable Approach To Collect Post-Consumer Textile Waste In Developing Countries

Büyükaslan

Jevšnik

Kalaoğlu

2015

Marmara Fen Bil Dergisi

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Every year million tons of textile waste is being sent to landfills. It is estimated that in Turkey approximately half of the disposed textile waste is consisted of post-consumer textile waste. Although the amount of post-consumer textile waste is as high as pre-consumer textile waste, recovering opportunities for post-consumer textile waste is substantially disregarded. The purpose of this study is to make the preliminary work to investigate potential of post-consumer textile waste and recycling/reusing possibilities in Turkey by monitoring UK and US examples. This study may contribute to developing countries as many of them are lacking of an attempt to collect, recycle or reuse post-consumer textile waste.

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Section: Practices To Collect Post-consumer Textile Wastesupporting

confidence: 62%

“…The trends are now changing quicker more than ever and fast fashion retailers adapt and offer these trends to the consumers with affordable prices. Thus consumers are motivated to displace the garments in their wardrobe with the trendy items in a routine manner [13].…”

Section: Recycling Of Textile Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

A Sustainable Approach To Collect Post-Consumer Textile Waste In Developing Countries

Büyükaslan

Jevšnik

Kalaoğlu

2015

Marmara Fen Bil Dergisi

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“…The accelerated pace of clothing consumption has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of textile wastes (Morgan & Birtwistle, 2009). Fast fashion changes and short-lived styles have created a throwaway trend and resulted in a negative environmental consequence (Birtwistle & Moore, 2007).…”

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Second‐hand clothing consumption: A generational cohort analysis of the Chinese market

Liang

2017

Int J Consumer Studies

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China's rapidly growing economy and consumption are creating serious environmental problems in the country. The throwaway trend credited to fast fashion changes and short-lived styles made textiles and clothing a new body of solid wastes, resulting in a negative environmental consequence in China. While minimizing consumption of textiles and apparel cannot be the primary solution to environmental problems, it is important to enhance consumer awareness of the impact of their daily consumption on the environment and to promote environmentally sustainable apparel consumption and disposal behaviours. From a generational cohort perspective, this study aims to gain an insight of Chinese consumers' behaviours towards second-hand clothing, in terms of their consumption intentions and the influence of consumers' perceived values, perceived concerns and descriptive norms on their purchase intentions. Data for this study were collected through a survey of 350 Chinese consumers across the four generational cohorts in China, including the Post-60s, Post-70s, Post-80s and Post-90s. It was observed that Chinese consumers, in general, had a strong resistance towards second-hand clothing consumption, with the Post-70s having the strongest resistance. Significant differences were identified among the four cohorts.The younger generations perceived higher values and held higher purchase intentions than their older counterparts. Different motivations were also identified among the four cohorts in their second-hand clothing consumption. K E Y W O R D SChinese consumers, descriptive norm, generational cohorts, perceived concern, perceived value, second-hand clothing

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“…Additionally, elder and married consumers had greater tendency to display altruistic dispositions. Morgan and Birtwistle (2009) classified disposal behavior in the following categories: selling via online and offline stores, giving to charity shops, putting in recycling bins, giving to family members or friends, and reusing in the home; giving to charity shops was the most common method of clothing disposal. Kim and Cho (2000) classified the clothing disposal behavior of unmarried woman workers into altruistic and economic recycling disposal behavior.…”

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The Influence of Shopping Orientation on Difficulty Discarding and Disposal Behavior of Fashion Products

Park¹,

Choo²,

Ku³

2016

SFTI

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: Due to the rapid expansion of fashion, consumers easily purchase fashion products, the period of wearing apparel is shortened, and the occurrence of clothes piling up in the closet is increasing. In order to induce and suggest rational consumption and disposal actions, research focused on the factors influencing difficulty discarding and disposal behavior toward a fashion product is needed. Thus, this study considered fashion-shopping orientation as a variable affecting difficulty discarding and disposal behavior toward fashion products. A total of 325 questionnaires were collected, and 11 were discarded due to partial responses or missing data. Finally, a total of 314 survey questionnaires were analyzed. Frequency, exploratory factor, reliability, and multiple regression analyses were employed for data analysis using SPSS 23.0. The study results were as follows. First, hedonic and economic shopping orientation positively affected difficulty discarding a fashion product, whereas rational shopping orientation negatively affected difficulty discarding a fashion product. Second, hedonic, economic, and conspicuous shopping orientation positively affected reuse behavior among disposal behavior toward a fashion product. Third, trend-seeking and convenient shopping orientation positively influenced handover behavior. Fourth, economic and conspicuous shopping orientation positively affected separation discard behavior. The results of this study provide various guidelines for manufacturers and retailers of fashion products.

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An investigation of young fashion consumers' disposal habits

Cited by 375 publications

References 30 publications

A Sustainable Approach To Collect Post-Consumer Textile Waste In Developing Countries

A Sustainable Approach To Collect Post-Consumer Textile Waste In Developing Countries

Second‐hand clothing consumption: A generational cohort analysis of the Chinese market

The Influence of Shopping Orientation on Difficulty Discarding and Disposal Behavior of Fashion Products

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