Clothing and Sustainability: Policy Implications through Structured Public Debate

Funding Year: 2017-2018

This GCRT examined current practices of post-consumer textile waste management and community perceptions regarding clothing life cycle. They planned to develop evidence-based policy recommendations based on data gathered from perspectives of consumers, businesses and local municipality officials in Northern Colorado.

Principal Investigators:

  • Sonali Diddi, Department of Design and Merchandising
  • Ruoh-Nan (Terry) Yan, Department of Design and Merchandising
  • Susan Opp, Department of Political Science
  • Martin Carcasson, Department of Communications Studies
  • Katie McShane, Department of Philosophy
  • Brittany Bloodhart, Department of Atmospheric Science