Fast fashion, inexpensive and widely available of-the-moment garments, has changed the way people buy and dispose of clothing. By selling large quantities of clothing at cheap prices, fast fashion has emerged as a dominant business model, causing garment consumption to skyrocket. While this transit...
If the EU was unable to operationalise its commitment to sustainable development and not move beyond rhetoric, then allegations of greenwash can be made. 2. EU as a normative power In seeking to understand the shaping of the EU's role on the international stage, Manners (2002) argues that ...
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But they should be careful not to “greenwash” their sustainability efforts, which means misrepresenting them for public relations benefit. Greenwashing can damage a brand’s reputation and undermine customer trust. 7. Unsold Inventory Unsold apparel poses another challenge to the fashion industry’s...
Earth Day falls on April 22nd every year, and I’ve come to dread it. More often than not, as an environmental reporter, it means sifting through a million announcements from companies shouting about how they’re trying to save the planet. ...
Knowing that consumers have become savvy to the dangers of chemicals in hair dye, manufacturers have gone all-out in their attempts to greenwash their products. Don’t be fooled! Just because the name of a product may sound ‘green and clean’ doesn’t mean it is. ...
(2022) highlight that target setting without concern for local contexts may confuse the means and ends of transformation and reinforce unequal power dynamics. In response, they launch a call to foreground equity consid- erations in both research and practice. Grabs et al. (2021) echo this ...
It perpetuates misunderstandings about what it really means to live sustainably. There is a widely-held belief (encouraged by the ‘sustainable lifestyle’ industry) that environmentally friendly living is expensive and complicated, requiring a PhD in Sustainable Shopping Expertise and generous helpings ...
To understand better the nature of the unique response profiles underlying people's views of what it means to be a ‘true’ New Zealander, we then used 21 variables to predict membership in the separate national identity profiles. These variables comprised a set of important socio-demographic var...
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