Life cycle assessment of clothing libraries: can collaborative consumption reduce the environmental impact of fast fashion?
Life cycle assessment of clothing libraries: can collaborative consumption reduce the environmental impact of fast fashion?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.128
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发表时间：
2017-09-20
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11.1
通讯作者：
Peters, Greg M.
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作者：
Zamani, Bahareh;Sandin, Gustav;Peters, Greg M.
快时尚是一种服装供应链模式，旨在通过频繁更新商店中提供的服装产品来快速响应最新的时尚趋势。向快速时尚的转变导致服装的实际使用寿命缩短。协作消费是一种替代基于所有权的传统消费模式的商业方式，可以通过延长服装的实际使用寿命来潜在地减少时尚对环境的影响。在这项研究中，我们使用生命周期评估来探索服装图书馆的环境绩效，作为实施协同消费的可能方式之一，并比较了与传统商业模式的优缺点。并对影响服装图书馆环境影响的关键因素进行了探讨。我们的评估基于服装库中的三种主要流行服装：牛仔裤、T恤和连衣裙。结果表明，实施服装库的好处与延长服装的使用寿命有关。因此，为了实现环境效益，大幅延长服装的使用寿命是很重要的。此外，结果定量地证明了问题转移的潜在风险：增加客户运输可以完全抵消减少生产所获得的好处。这突显了在实施协同消费业务模式时考虑物流的必要性。(C)2017爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Fast fashion is a clothing supply chain model that is intended to respond quickly to the latest fashion trends by frequently updating the clothing products available in stores. The shift towards fast fashion leads to shorter practical service lives for garments. Collaborative consumption is an alternative way of doing business to the conventional model of ownership-based consumption, and one that can potentially reduce the environmental impacts of fashion by prolonging the practical service life of clothes. In this study, we used life cycle assessment to explore the environmental performance of clothing libraries, as one of the possible ways in which collaborative consumption can be implemented, and compared the advantages and disadvantages in relation to conventional business models. Furthermore, the key factors influencing the environmental impact of clothing libraries were investigated. We based our assessment on three key popular garments that are stocked in clothing libraries: jeans, T-shirts and dresses. The results showed the benefits of implementing clothing libraries associated with the garments' prolonged service lives. Therefore to achieve environmental gains, it is important to substantially increase garment service life. Moreover, the results quantitatively demonstrated the potential risk of problem shifting: increased customer transportation can completely offset the benefits gained from reduced production. This highlighted the need to account for the logistics when implementing collaborative consumption business models. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.