scholarly journals Issues Surrounding Behavior towards Discarded Textiles and Garments in Ljubljana

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6491
Author(s):  
Katarina Polajnar Horvat ◽  
Katarina Šrimpf Vendramin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Textile Waste ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sustainable Behavior

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.

Recycling and Reuse of Fashion

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Chand Prakash Saini ◽  
M. K. Nair ◽  
K. Tara Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Textile Waste ◽  
Textile Recycling ◽  
The World

The chapter examines the role of recycling and reuse of fashion in order to achieve environmental sustainability. The chapter supports its conclusion by various reports that recycling of textile waste can be solutions to many environmental issues caused by fast fashion. However, textile recycling is an old term; in recent years, it has gained attention again due to fast fashion culture in significant parts of the world, which has resulted in overconsumption of textiles and led to waste generation. Waste recycling has become a multibillion industry. New ways are being created in terms of the development of sorting machines, design inputs, and innovative high-value products to make recycling a profitable proposition. The chapter also highlights how the second-hand market of clothes and the internet as a facilitator can help in reducing textile waste.

scholarly journals TRASH TO TREASURE: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS INTO UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM

2021 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Polina Vasileva ◽  
Vadim Yuryevitch Golubev ◽  
Ildar Ibragimov ◽  
Svetlana Rubtsova
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Green Consumerism ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalism Students

Over the last decade, educators around the world have paid increasing attention to raising public awareness of the need to make concerted efforts to provide a sustainable future for this planet. Many scientists and eco-activists have done a lot to develop public environmental consciousness using different educational tools. This paper discusses integrating environmental awareness into academic curriculum. It analyses the introduction of an environmental component to the English for the Media course offered at St Petersburg University. The experimental study was conducted for three semesters: in the spring semester of 2019 (February - May 2019), the fall semester of the same year (September - December 2019) and the spring semester of 2020 (February - May 2020). It involved 65 first - and second-year journalism students. Media professionals are responsible for changing the way people look at the environment. Project-based learning helps students to expand their environmental repertoires such as shaping public perception of ‘green consumerism’ as a fashionable trend. The growing awareness of environmental issues requires shaping consumer's mindfulness about obliteration and depletion of natural resources through irresponsible activities. The trash-to-treasure and eco-comics projects are lightweight, exciting and effective tools of raising environmental awareness in future media practitioners and enhancing their scientific writing skills. Using these skills journalists can make their environmental messages accessible to a broader public.

scholarly journals OTRALAMNGARAT SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF THE MEDIA CASE STUDY ON VISUAL AND WRITTEN MEDIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-253
Author(s):  
Ahmed, H. A. ◽  
Ibrahim M. M. ◽  
Fayyad, R. M. ◽  
Al – Elshwikh E. M. O. H.
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Communication Breakdown: The Media Effects on Ecuador's Environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Occurrences

Environmental communication is an essential part of any society; it informs the population of new occurrences and happenings nearby, and around the globe. As technology evolves, so do the methods in which humans communicate and comprehend. The ways environmental issues are presented to and perceived by the public have increasingly influenced their decision making and continue to affect the way people live their lives. But what role do media outlets play in the environmental awareness of their audience? This research study demonstrates the importance of environmental communication in Ecuador and the various ways in which it can be distorted or controlled. It is critical that individuals are aware of their country’s actions and reactions to the environment, as well as their own personal footprints within it. Researching the media in Ecuador, alongside the population’s reaction to it, shows how important media is to the environmental awareness of its citizens, as well as their attitude towards conservation.

scholarly journals How The Media Is A Significant Promotional Tool To Deliver Marketing Messages To Audiences?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon C. Cho ◽  
Jerome Agrusa
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
The Media ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Marketing Messages

Previous studies (e.g., Desai and Basuroy 2005) have frequently examined the influence of media such as film and soap operas on the marketing and tourism industry and also with various audience characteristics (Kwak, Zinkhan, and Dominick 2002). This study explores 1) what factors affect U.S. audiences preferences toward Asian Soap Operas; 2) how U.S. audiences perceive products/services that are shown on Asian Soap Operas; 3) how such attitudes affect actual behavior; and 4) how such attitudes affect their willingness to travel to a country shown in the soap opera. This study also investigates whether such factors as cultural impact, image of the country, preferences of actors and actresses affect ease of use and usefulness of a product and how ease of viewing and usefulness affect attitudes toward overall satisfaction. This study collected surveys in the U.S. and various statistical analyses, such as factor analysis, regression analysis, and ANOVA are applied. The findings of the study will contribute to the development of the use and gratification theory by applying it to the audiences attitudes toward Asian Soap Operas. Further, this study provides implications and offers suggestions to Asian Soap Operas in the U.S. market.

scholarly journals National Policy and the Media in the Formation of Environmental Awareness among Students of Kazakhstan

Media Watch ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayan Zh. Tursynbayeva ◽  
Gulaim M. Mukhambetkaliyeva ◽  
Kanat A. Auyesbay ◽  
Nurlan O. Baigabylov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The Media

A Study on the Environmental Campaigns in Traditional and Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Sunitha Kuppuswamy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Environmental Campaigns ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how the environment is a significant part of today's world. The media has the responsibility of educating the audience about the prevailing environmental issues such as pollution, global warming, and climate change as they threaten the humankind and sustainable development. Environmental campaigns play a major role in creating awareness about environmental issues and its adverse effects on people. This article examines the content of environmental campaigns in traditional and social media. It also intends to find out the impact of those campaigns on the environmental awareness of different cross-cultural sections of people. The article is designed based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour according to which human action is guided by a number of factors. A few centralized social media campaigns together with selected campaigns on radio, print and television were taken for the study. To determine the effectiveness and impact of these campaigns, content analysis and surveys were conducted. The findings revealed that the campaigns had many positive benefits and a number of factors were influencing the promotion of environmental awareness. The study tested a few factors based on communication theories and discussions were drawn.

Social representations and environmental education with a women's group in Manaus, Amazonas-Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE STOREY ◽  
HAYDÉE TORRES DE OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
The Media ◽  
Interpretation Process ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
Sustainable Societies ◽  
The Impact

Since the 1970s, it has been acknowledged that environmental education has an essential role to play in fostering environmental interrelations to promote sustainable societies, however, the theoretical and practical debates within environmental education are ongoing. There is an argument that divergent understandings of the environment need to be interpreted if interventions that are participatory and accommodate participants' environmental frameworks are to be planned. Research was carried out to verify whether the theory of social representations could assist environmental educators in interpreting participants' lifestyles and perceived needs. Accordingly, data were collected on environmental social representations within a group of 10 urban women from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. The objective was to understand the impact of such representations on the women's environmental awareness and assess the applicability of such data to planning environmental education interventions. The women's social representations were interpreted as being directed by five mediators, namely cultural heritage, identity, the media, religion and situation, which influenced their environmental practices and understandings. The interpretation process also illustrated contradictions in identities and situations that impacted on the women's environmental awareness. Interpretation of social representations offers valuable information about participants' conceptual frameworks and indicators of themes appropriate to planning educational interventions.

scholarly journals Textile recycling- A review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 069-074
Author(s):  
Akram H M Ali ◽  
Elawad F Elfaky ◽  
Salah A Mohammed ◽  
Hago E Haroon ◽  
Isam A Eshag ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Textile Waste ◽  
Logical Approach ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
Textile Recycling ◽  
The World ◽  
Frequent Consumption

Textiles are one of the largest growing waste streams in the world and are expected to continue to grow due to more frequent consumption and greater demand from fast fashion, along with this come high consumption of chemicals, energy, and water, which generate significant environmental impacts globally. Textiles in landfill biodegrade to form methane gas which is released into the air and is not suitable for human consumption, is one of the most effects factor that recycling is addressing by diverting textile from landfill. A logical approach to diverting existing textile waste streams is the adoption of textile recycling technologies and systems.

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