There is always a resistance to change. If the sustainable textile movement is to be taken forward sensible, responsible and accountable behavior is a must. People want to shirk their responsibility and don't want their their accountability be fixed.
If head of every family sets an example by himself by loving the food as sacred and waste is a drag on the exchequer of not only that family but a nation at large. Waste of food by someone in my knowledge is like snatching the food of someone else. Practically and by our own examples we can profess and practice it such that other people would follow your footprints.
The adjustment related to employee engagement based on their emotional dimensions towards SD objectives may possibly contribute an important part here.
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I think sustainability challenge involves complicated issue. There are many supreme challenges on global public discourse such as chemical society, water shortage, human rights, political, social and economic lives, government or global institution has no sufficient jurisdiction, common societal and private practices and the role of various and often conflicting values associated with production and consumption, supply and demand etc. The particular sustainability challenge is this need for a functioning interplay between supply side and demand side actors that brings in sustainable values and practices more directly into focus.
The responsibility challenge of the textile and clothing sector is closely related to the rapid globalization of trade in the recent decades
That not only is the supply and demand chain globalized but so is its responsibility chain. This is due to two important problem-solving challenges.
· No one government or any one global institution has sufficient jurisdictional and/or policy authority to comprehensively regulate the globalized supply and demand chain in clothing and textiles. Politicians cannot, therefore, create strong laws with encompassing regulation, and corporate leaders cannot implement operative measures that successfully and effectively cover all problem areas.
· Second, because the supply and demand chain is long, widespread, and globalized, it is not possible to identify all the actors behind the sustainability problems. Even when it is possible to find a wrong doer, the available mechanisms for holding this actor liable (e.g., corporate fines, worker compensation, production shutdowns, and imprisonment) rarely solve the problem and seldom lead to better practice.
· Important challenge is to conduct more innovative studies that might offer additional information about what other mechanisms might be used to weaken these barriers further.