Environmental benefits from reusing clothes

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 726-736

  Farrant, Laura ^a   Olsen, Stig Irving ^a   Wangel, Arne ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clothes reuse; Clothing; Environmental benefits; Environmental design of industrial products (EDIP) methodology; Reusing clothes; Second hand clothes (SHC); Second hand shops

Indexed keywords

POLYESTER;

AFRICA; CLOTHING; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ESTONIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECYCLING; SOCIAL MARKETING; SWEDEN; WASTE DISPOSAL;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 77956881161     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-010-0197-y     Document Type: Note

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