Week 11 - ENV 110 - Environmental Sciences I - LibGuides at Hostos Community College Library

Solid and Hazardous Waste

Reading

Chapter 17: Solid Waste
Living organisms consume materials and eventually return them to the environment, usually in a different form, for reuse. Solid waste (or trash) is a human concept. It refers to a variety of discarded materials, not liquid or gas, that are deemed useless or worthless. However, what is worthless to one person may be of value to someone else, and solid wastes can be considered to be misplaced resources. Learning effective ways to reduce the amount of wastes produced and to recycle valuable resources contained in the wastes is important if humans wish to maintain a livable and sustainable environment.

Slow Fashion Assignment: Video

Fashion on Climate | Global Fashion Agenda + McKinsey & Company

Fashion needs to act on climate. If we continue on our current path, we will miss our 2030 emissions reduction targets by 50%, leading to accelerated global warming.

From rising sea levels, to extreme rainfall and more powerful heatwaves, the consequences of climate change can no longer be ignored, either by society or the fashion industry, which will see many impacts on its operations in the years ahead.

Additional Materials

Urban Waste Management

"Cities are facing an increasing growth in population, and shares in GDP growth, resulting in, among other things, increasing quantities of waste being generated. Due to varied lifestyles and consumption patterns, the quality and composition of waste has been more varied and changing. Industrialization and economic growth has produced more amounts of waste, including hazardous and toxic wastes. There is a growing realization of the negative impacts that wastes have had on the local environment (air, water, land, human health etc.)"

Japan’s Waste Stream Management

"From a broader city-wide perspective, there are a number of actions being taken at different levels to ensure that this "clean" neighbourhoods happens. As the examples below show, multistakeholder partnerships between local entities representing the local governments, businesses and citizens groups come together to take action on the different stages of waste management (waste collection, processing, recycling and minimization)."

Slow Fashion Assignment

The Problem with ‘Sustainable Fashion’

The Myth of Sustainable Fashion

Slow Fashion Trends: Are Consumers Willing to Change Their Shopping Behavior to Become More Sustainable?

Slow fashion movement: Understanding consumer perceptions—An exploratory study

From Fast Fashion to Sustainable Slow Fashion

Smart textiles sense how their users are moving

Slow fashion movement: Understanding consumer perceptions—An exploratory study***

H&M, a Fashion Giant, Has a Problem: $4.3 Billion in Unsold Clothes **

Fashion on Climate: HOW THE FASHION INDUSTRY CAN URGENTLY ACT TO REDUCE ITS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Carbon footprint tax on fashion supply chain systems***

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***Use CUNYLogin Credentials to access articles through the library

Slow Fashion Accompanies Digital Towards a Sustainable Future: From Quantity to Quality. Reflections on the New Paradigm of Sustainable Fashion

Assignment 5

How Much Waste Do You Produce?

Attributions

Chapter 17 Solid Waste
Source: AP Environmental Science by University of California, University of California College Prep
License: CC BY 2.0

Urban Waste Management
Source: GDRC Research Output, contact Hari Srinivas at hsrinivas@gdrc.org

Japan’s Waste Stream Management
Source: Multistakeholder Initiatives in Waste Management: Examples from Japan by Hari Srinivas, GDRC Reseaarch Output
License: CC BY-SA 4.0

The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Source: Kenneth P. Pucker for Harvard Business Review, Copyright © 2023 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

Slow Fashion Accompanies Digital Towards a Sustainable Future: From Quantity to Quality. Reflections on the New Paradigm of Sustainable Fashion
Source: E. Pucci, M. Tufarelli and L. Giliberti in Proceedings of the Design Society, Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 1091 - 1098 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.111
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Slow Fashion Trends: Are Consumers Willing to Change Their Shopping Behavior to Become More Sustainable?
Source: Castro-López, A.; Iglesias, V.; Puente, J., Sustainability 2021, 13, 13858. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413858
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

From Fast Fashion to Sustainable Slow Fashion
Source: Isabel Agatha Mollward-Pena, (2022).Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations. 1453.
License: Free and open access by the Office of Graduate Studies at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact scholarworks@csusb.edu

Slow fashion movement: Understanding consumer perceptions—An exploratory study
Source: Sanjukta Pookulangara & Arlesa Shephard, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services Volume 20, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 200-206; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2012.12.002
© 2023 Copyright - All Rights Reserved Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Smart textiles sense how their users are moving
Source: Adam Zewe, MIT News Office (July 7, 2022).
Reprinted with permission of MIT News: http://news.mit.edu/

H&M, a Fashion Giant, Has a Problem: $4.3 Billion in Unsold Clothes
Source: Elizabeth Paton, The New York Times, © 2023 The New York Times Company

Carbon footprint tax on fashion supply chain systems
Source: Choi, TM. Carbon footprint tax on fashion supply chain systems. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 68, 835–847 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-4947-4
Copyright © 2013, Springer-Verlag London