<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/1597/2020</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--70-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Achieving Sustainability through Zero Waste Fashion-A Review</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff001'><sup>1</sup><instname></instname>,<deptname>Apparel and Textile Science Department</deptname>, <instaddress>PAU</instaddress>, <instcity>Ludhiana</instcity>, <instcountry>India</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate>2020-06-22</publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.15.2.02</doi><volume>Volume 15</volume><issue>Volume 15</issue><page>154-162</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:14px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;Fashion industry encompasses every stage of production, starting from production of fibres, fabric, designing, production and sale of garments. &lt;/span&gt;Fashion industry holds second place among the pollution causing industries. This industry has an enormous impact on the environment as well as on the millions of people working in it. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;During &lt;/span&gt;the course of production of garments, a substantial amount of waste is generated. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;Solid waste, thus produced is sent to landfills, where it decomposes and leads to production of methane gas. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps atmospheric heat more effectively than the most common greenhouse gas&amp;mdash;carbon dioxide.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;The solid waste contributes significantly to the existing problem of global warming. &lt;/span&gt;The increase in population and increased consumption of products in the developed world has started the global waste problem. Fast fashion provides the marketplace with affordable apparel. Fashion magazines create the desire for new &amp;ldquo;must-haves&amp;rdquo; for each season. But fast fashion has its side effects in the form of pollution footprint. The rate at which the clothing waste is generated is far more than its rate of decomposition. Millions of tons of clothing waste is dumped in landfills, which &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;may take between one to five months to fully biodegrade, with the condition that the waste comprises only of organic cotton fabrics. The waste generated is a mixture of natural as well as synthetic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;fibre&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:14px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:white&quot;&gt;, with 20 to 200 years of decomposition time.&lt;span style=&quot;color:#222222&quot;&gt; Each chemical treatment elongates its biodegradation time. A viable solution to this problem may be the adoption of every technique resulting in lower waste generation. Zero waste Fashion may be a step towards achievement of sustainability. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A Zero waste policy must be adopted to identify inefficiencies in the use of inputs like raw materials, power and workforce. Zero waste policy supports every phase of the sustainability movement. This paper is centered on the main causes of waste generation in garment industry and the Zero waste generation techniques of garment production and other means of waste reduction which can be adopted to make the fashion industry sustainable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Fast Fashion</kwd><kwd> Pollution</kwd><kwd> Solid Waste</kwd><kwd> Sustainability</kwd><kwd> Zero Waste</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>