Herausgeber*in: BMBF-Vorhaben DiTex

Autor*in: Ria Müller, Christina Vogel, Sabrina Schmidt, Dr. Frieder Rubik, Magdalena Müller, Kai Nebel, Martina Gerbig, Barbara Boldrini, Ina Budde, Florian Kamm, Martijn Witteveen, Carsten Ridder, Serge Lang, Dr. Kim Hecht, Dr. Jasmin Jung, Dr. Anja Gerhardts, Dr. Guido Reinhardt, Christina Zinke, Sven Gärtner             

Schlagwörter: Berufsbekleidung, Circular Economy, Flachwäsche, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Waschen

Kurzbeschreibung:

Weltweit werden immer mehr Textilien produziert – mit gravierenden Folgen für die Umwelt. Ein möglicher Lösungsansatz: eine kreislauffähige Textilwirtschaft mit funktionierenden Recyclingprozessen und entsprechenden Infrastrukturen. Das Forschungsprojekt „DiTex - Digitale Technologien als Enabler einer ressourceneffizienten kreislauffähigen B2B-Textilwirtschaft“ erprobt im Charakter einer Machbarkeitsstudie eine kreislauffähige Textilwirtschaft im Geschäftskundensegment, d.h. im Bereich Business-to-Business (B2B). Dahinter steht die Einschätzung, dass bei Berufsbekleidung und Flachwäsche (Bettwaren, Handtücher) im gewerblichen Kontext enorme Volumina identischer Textilien im Umlauf sind und die Logistik über jeweils fixe Ausgabe- und Rücknahmepunkte in den einzelnen Einrichtungen gut organisiert und etabliert ist. Die Beteiligten in diesem Projektverbund erachten es in besonderem Maße für möglich, in dieser weitgehend geschlossenen B2B-Textilwirtschaft einen ressourceneffizienten ökologischen Materialeinsatz mit einem dienstleistungsbasierten und auf häufige Nutzungszyklen ausgerichteten Geschäftsmodell zu verbinden, das digitale Technologien smart nutzt. DiTex will dafür eine Erprobungsplattform sein.

Dieser Integrative Forschungsbericht (IB) stellt eine möglichst vollständige Ergebnisdokumentation der DiTex-Arbeiten nach zwei von insgesamt drei Jahren Vorhabenslaufzeit dar. Alle bis Sommer 2021 in den Arbeitspaketen (AP) 1 und 2 erzielten Recherche- und Prüfergebnisse werden in diesem Bericht dokumentiert, ausgewertet und interpretiert.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Deutsch

Umfang: 198 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende

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Herausgeber*in: Laudes Foundation

Autor*in: Margot Brent, Kate Coles, Cliodhnagh Conlon, Juliette Lemaire, Laura Macias, Jacob Park

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Frauen, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Nachhaltigkeit, Unternehmensverantwortung, Transformation

Kurzbeschreibung:

In the garment and textile industry, circularity is rapidly gaining momentum given its environmental benefits, commercial promise, and rising consumer interest. Clothing resale, for example, is expected to grow 11 times faster than traditional retail by 2025.

The industry, which employs an estimated 60-70 million people in its value chain, must now grapple with the following questions: how will circular fashion impact job opportunities and job quality? And how can we ensure that the transition to a circular fashion system is just, fair, and inclusive?

The KWIL team investigated the job impacts of a shift to circularity, using foresight methodologies to account for macro forces reshaping the industry, such as automation and climate disruption. The research focused on the US, Europe, and India and included the following workstreams: Primary and Secondary Research, Economic Modelling and Scenario Planning.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 153 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende

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Herausgeber*in: Department of Sustainability Science, LUT University

Autor*in: Jarkko Levänen, Ville Uusitalo, Anna Härri, Elisa Kareinen and Lassi Linnane

Schlagwörter: Circular Economy, Geschäftspraktiken, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lifecycle Analysis, Nachhaltigkeit, Recycling, Reboundeffekt, textile Kette, Treibhausgasemissionen

Kurzbeschreibung:

Using life cycle assessment, the study compares the global warming potential (GWP) of five ownership and end-of-life scenarios for creating and using a pair of jeans. The scenarios are as follows: (a) BASE, i.e. basic use with waste disposal; (b) REDUCE, i.e. extended use; (c) REUSE, i.e. reselling; (d) RECYCLE, i.e. industrial processing into new raw materials; and (e) SHARE, i.e. a rental service. Our results show that the lowest global warming impacts are achieved in the REDUCE scenario, and the second lowest are achieved in the REUSE scenario. The RECYCLE scenario leads to relatively high overall emissions because the replaced emissions from cotton production are relatively low. The use of rental services is likely to increase customers’ mobility, and if that happens in a large scale, then the SHARE scenario has the highest GWP. It was found that many new CE innovations come with a high rebound risk, and existing practices carry similar, yet smaller risks.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 11 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende

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Herausgeber_in: British Fashion Council

Schlagwörter: Designstrategien, Bekleidungsindustrie, England, Jeans, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lieferketten, Mode, Modedesign, Qualität, Recycling, Upcycling

Kurzbeschreibung:

In 2020, the British Fashion Council launched the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) to create a new industry standard for accountability by acting as a catalyst for change.
By its very nature, fashion encourages expression, offering the potential to connect citizens to global issues. However, the industry is facing unprecedented challenges to inspire and clothe consumers around the world while dramatically decarbonising and reducing the waste arising from its activities.
This report identifies ten priority action areas, each of which involves efforts across many different parts of the fashion ecosystem. Each action area is equally important and has the potential to amplify the effects of the others. They jointly contribute to the target outcomes, as shown under ‘10 priority action areas for realising the target state’ at the end of this summary and on pages 50-51 of the report.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 64 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Ellen McArthur Foundation

Schlagwörter: Designstrategien, Bekleidungsindustrie, Jeans, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lieferketten, Mode, Modedesign, Qualität, Recycling, Upcycling

Kurzbeschreibung:
For decades, jeans have been at the heart of countless fashion collections. The Jeans Redesign guidelines encourage leading brands, mills, and manufacturers to transform the way jeans are made. Based on the principles of a circular economy, they're a blueprint for collective action to scale circular practices.
The guidelines are a starting point for industry to design and make products aligned with the principles of a circular economy. Making jeans that are used more, made to be made again, and made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 18 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: ECOS

Autor_in: Valeria Botta, Ivo Cabra

Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Chemikalien, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Lebenszyklus, Mikroplastik, Qualität, Recycling, Reparierbarkeit, Siegel, Textile Kette, Textilindustrie, Umweltverschmutzung, Wasserverbrauch

Kurzbeschreibung:

Textile products have a tremendous ecological footprint at all stages of their lives. As more clothes are produced, consumed, and thrown away than ever before, the current linear, take-make-dispose model followed by the textile industry is putting an enormous pressure on our planet – its resources, environment, and climate.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current situation and goes on to explore the policies and standardisation actions needed to advance towards circular textiles, building on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the ecodesign approach in other sectors.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 32 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Autor_in: European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Chemikalien, Circular Economy, Europa, Globalisierung, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Materialien, Nachhaltigkeit, Politik, Unternehmensverantwortung, Upcycling, verbindliche Standards

Kurzbeschreibung:

The EU is one of the biggest global markets for textiles and home to many of the sector’s most powerful companies. Decades of voluntary self-regulation have led to textiles and clothing value chains becoming synonymous with the use of huge amounts of our planet’s finite natural resources, pollution from hazardous chemicals, the production of high levels of waste, poor working conditions, and human rights violations.
To end the global overuse of resources and the transgression of planetary boundaries, all industries need to change; the textile industry is no exception. In this position paper, ‘Wardrobe Change’, a coalition of environmental civil society organisations, is calling for the EU Textile Strategy to be a coherent overarching framework which ties together the many different policies that are needed to set Europe on a transformative path to sustainable textile production and consumption.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 36 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Colour Connections

Autor_in: Phil Patterson

Schlagwörter: Ausrüstung, Chemikalien, Circular Economy, Fasern, Färben, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lederproduktion, Lieferketten, Nachhaltigkeit, Textilindustrie, Umweltaspekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

The fashion industry has to change its relationship with chemicals as a matter of urgency.
The way in which chemicals are currently used and disposed of makes textiles the second most polluting industry in the world. Furthermore, the extraction, production, transportation, and remediation of those chemicals are a significant contributor to climate change.
As world fibre consumption passes 100 million tonnes per annum, the time has come to take a step back and challenge whether current, single-use models for chemicals used in the conversion of fibres to finished textile products should be allowed to continue.
Chemicals are used in yarn spinning, weaving, knitting and wet processing (e.g. dyeing, printing, finishing, laundry) and are typically used once only. After use in a particular process, they are either passed to the next actor in a supply chain on a product, removed and dumped into the environment, or partially remediated and dumped into the environment.
This can be described as a single-use linear model because there is usually no attempt to recycle or reuse the chemical prior to disposal.
This report is aimed at providing chemical suppliers and chemical users in the supply chain with recommendations and suggestions on how to move away from single-use linear models and increase the recycling and reuse of textile chemicals – referred to in the report as non-linear use models. The recommendations and suggestions for change include a call for the wider use of existing good practice and the need for research and development. The intention is to highlight what is possible, what should be possible and what could be possible. This therefore raises many questions that will need to be addressed from both a technical and behavioural perspective.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: PACE Platform for Accelerating the circular economy

Autor_in: Alvise Lisca, Jessica Feeley, Andrés Oliva Lozano, Ke Wang

Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Klimawandel, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lieferketten, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Transformation, Umweltaspekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Textiles have long been an integral part of our daily lives and society, providing employment for hundreds of millions of people and creating tremendous economic value. However, the industry’s significant ecological footprint, as well as its health and social risks, have come under increasing scrutiny. There is urgent need for transformation.
How can circular strategies contribute? Three objectives have been formulated based on converging visions of a circular economy for textiles: inputs for textiles are safe and recycled or renewable; textiles are kept in use for longer; and textiles are recyclable and recycled at end-of-use.
Researchers have already documented the challenges from the textiles value chain today, the need for a transition to a circular economy, and the systemic change required for the transition. This report builds on the existing literature to identify the actions needed for a better and faster transition to a circular economy for textiles. Each report has four main chapters: Objectives, Impact, Barriers, and Actions

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Altkleider, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Circular Economy, gesetzliche Regulierung, Konsum, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Leihen, Ökostandards, Recycling, Secondhand, Textile Waste, Tipps für in der Bekleidungsbranche Tätige, Transformation, Treibhausgase, Umweltschutz, Unternehmensverantwortung,

Kurzbeschreibung:

In the unparalleled response to the Covid-19 pandemic, trillions of dollars in economic stimulus have been made available around the world while the calls for a recovery that is in alignment with other global challenges, have never been louder. Many see beyond the pandemic a rare opportunity to build a resilient and low-carbon economic recovery. Achieving this goal requires governments to take critical actions that not only focus on safeguarding national economies during crises, but that also pave the way toward a wider economic transformation that is more resilient against future global risks.

The circular economy, as an instrument to decouple economic growth from resource use and environmental impact, opens up the way for a resilient recovery. It not only addresses the negative impacts of the linear economy, but more importantly it represents a systemic shift that builds long-term resilience, generates business and economic opportunities, and provides environmental and societal benefits.

Chapter 7 and 8 gives ideas and solutions for the fashion industry especially for rental business models and recycling infrastructure.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 72 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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