Challenges of textile industry in the framework of Circular Economy : Case from Latvia
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2021-05-03
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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted such challenges for the world's socio-economic and financial systems Social entrepreneurship is an integral part of Europe's diverse social market economy. The aim of the paper is to tackle the social entrepreneurship field in Latvia and in particular to reveal the enterprises operating in the textile industry, as fashion industry in general is evaluated as second polluting industry, being just behind oil industry. The paper is limited to social entrepreneurship in the field of textile, as it is a new waste stream that has received particular goals and thus needs to be managed in a more sustainable way. To promote social enterprises in the field of textile production and processing it is especially important to implement elements of the circular economy in the daily activities of a social enterprise. Fostering social entrepreneurship in the textile field allows to reach a range of goals simultaneously, including, but not limited to-decrease of textile waste volume, increase of upcycling and moving towards circular economy targets.
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Funding Information: This research was carried out within the project of Latvian Council of Science Nr. lzp-2020/2-0317 «The Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Consumption Behaviours and Circular Economy». Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.
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1.5 Earth and related Environmental sciences, 5.2 Economy and Business, 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, General Environmental Science, General Energy, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
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Atstja, D, Cudečka-Puriņa, N, Vesere, R, Abele, L & Spivakovskyy, S 2021, Challenges of textile industry in the framework of Circular Economy : Case from Latvia. in International Conference on Sustainable, Circular Management and Environmental Engineering (ISCMEE 2021). vol. 255, 01014, E3S Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, International Conference on Sustainable, Circular Management and Environmental Engineering (ISCMEE 2021), Odesa, Ukraine, 16/04/21. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125501014
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