Sinha, P orcid.org/0000-0003-4384-9429, Dissanayke, DGK, Abeysooriya, RP et al. (1 more author) (2022) Addressing post-consumer textile waste in developing economies. The Journal of The Textile Institute, 113 (9). pp. 1887-1907. ISSN 0040-5000
Abstract
Consumer attitudes and disposal behaviour of textiles in developing economies are under researched, constraining capacity to address dual environmental challenges of increasingly disposable fashion and inefficient waste collection programs. We present the results of a systematic case study about post-consumer textiles waste in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Taking post-consumer textile waste as our unit of analysis, we conducted in-depth and semi-structured interviews with the local industry stakeholders, the waste management infrastructure and an island-wide survey of consumer attitudes and disposal behaviour towards post-consumer textile waste. The results indicate: (a) considerably more post-consumer textile waste than recorded at landfills; (b) consumption and disposal behaviour comparable with developed economies, significant in contexts of no formal mechanisms to address end of life post-consumer textile waste and (c) age, employment category, income level and geographical location, are statistically significant in understanding public textile waste disposal behaviour, indicating importance of appropriate policy and infrastructure issues.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | � 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4. 0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Post-consumer textile waste; disposal behaviour; waste management; developing economies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2022 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:55 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00405000.2021.1954428 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184135 |
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