Herausgeber*in: European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Autor*in: T. Duhoux, E. Maes, M. Hirschnitz-Garbers

Schlagwörter: Circular Economy, Europa, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Life Cycle, Nachhaltigkeit, Recycling, Textilien, Ökobilanz, Studie, Umweltbelastung

Kurzbeschreibung:

The findings of this study can be used as evidence base to improve the knowledge of the effectiveness of recycling capabilities of textile waste. This study wants to substantiate the understanding of the existing technologies industrially applied or at research stage, which relate to all the different types of recycling (e.g. mechanical recycling, chemical monomer recycling, chemical polymer recycling, etc.). It also provides an analysis of the economic and environmental effectiveness of those recycling technologies and a roadmap of the textile recycling technologies under development in order to support their industrial uptake.

Finally, it also provides an analysis on relevant policy initiatives in order to tackle potential regulatory barriers and scale up textile waste recycling activities in the EU.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Englisch, teils Französisch

Umfang: 205 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, Beschaffer*innen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber_in: adelphi und Systain Consulting GmbH

Autor_innen: Dr. Moritz Nill, Norbert Jungmichel, Christina Schampel (alle Systain), Daniel Weiss (adelphi)

Themen:             Umweltschäden/ Baumwollanbau/ Kunstfasern, Wertschöpfungskette/Globalisierung/Welthandel

Zielgruppe:        Student_innen, Erwachsene, Dozent_innen

Medien:              Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitssicherheit, Chemikalien, Chemie in der Kleidung, Globalisierung, Lieferkette, Ökobilanz, Textilindustrie, Treibhauseffekt, Umweltbelastungen, Wasserverbrauch, Zulieferfabriken

Kurzbeschreibung:

Die Umweltbelastungen, die in den internationalen Lieferketten von Unternehmen entstehen, sind oft um ein Vielfaches höher als an ihren Standorten in Deutschland. Unternehmen sind heute mehr denn je gefordert, ihrer gesellschaftlichen Ver­antwortung auch in der Lieferkette nachzukommen. Der „Umweltatlas Lieferketten“ von adelphi und Systain beschreibt erstmals umfassend, wie sich die Produktion von deutschen Unternehmen im Ausland auf die Umwelt auswirkt.

Die Studie untersucht die Umweltwirkungen acht ausgewählter Branchen im Hinblick auf vier Schlüsselbereiche des Umweltschutzes: Treibhausgasemissionen, Luftverschmutzung, Wasserverbrauch, Landnutzung.

Der Atlas zeigt auf, welche Umweltauswirkungen an welcher Stelle in den Lieferketten in welcher Weltregion auftreten und wie diese minimiert oder ganz vermieden werden können. Somit werden „Hotspots“ für die jeweilige Branche sichtbar gemacht. Darauf aufbauend stellt der Atlas Lösungsansätze und Instrumente vor.

Branchen: Bekleidungseinzelhandel, Chemieindustrie, Elektronikindustrie, Fahrzeugbau, Klima, Lebensmitteleinzelhandel, Maschinenbau, Metallerzeugung und -verarbeitung, Papierindustrie

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 48 Seiten

Sprache: Deutsch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Die Ökologie des Teilens - Bilanzierung der Umweltwirkungen des Peer-to-Peer Sharing

Herausgeber_in: Veröffentlichung im Rahmen des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Projekts „Peer-Sharing“

Autorin:             Sabrina Ludmann

Themen:             Kritischer Konsum, Wertschöpfungskette/Globalisierung/Welthandel

Zielgruppe:        Student_innen, Dozent_innen, Erwachsene

Medien:              Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Kreislauf, Konsumalternativen, Produktlebenszyklus, Ökobilanz, Treibhauseffekt

Kurzbeschreibung:

Ist das Teilen von Konsumgütern wirklich ökologisch vorteilhaft? Die Studie „Ökologie des Teilens“ überprüft die ökologischen Auswirkungen von Peer-to-Peer Sharing für die Branchen Bekleidung, Carsharing und Appartement-Sharing.

Die Studienautorin Sabrina Ludmann verwendete die Daten von Nutzerbefragungen von Online-Plattformen der Projekt-Praxispartner Kleiderkreisel, Drivy, Flinc und Wimdu, die im Projekt PeerSharing durchgeführt worden waren. Sie untersuchte deren aktuelles Konsumverhalten und ermittelte daraufhin die ökologischen Auswirkungen der Plattformnutzung.

Basierend auf diesen empirischen Daten, internen Informationen der Praxispartner und Literaturdaten wurde für jeden Praxispartner ein quantitatives Modell aufgestellt, das die Konsumpraktiken des entsprechenden Bereiches abbildet.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 86 Seiten

Sprache: Deutsch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Autor_in: Gershon Nimbalker, Jasmin Mawson, Claire Harris, Meredith Rynan, Libby Sanders, Claire Hart, Megan Shove

Herausgeber_in: Baptist World Aid Australia, Trustfund

Kurzbeschreibung:

The role of the global apparel and footwear industries has shifted far beyond meeting a basic human need. The relationship with fashion in our modern lives has had a collateral and significant impact on our planet’s resources.

As we face urgent environmental and social challenges caused by climate change and resource depletion, the efficacy of solutions will depend on the creativity, innovation and boldness so characteristic of the fashion industry. It’s time for players to change the trajectory. This report encourages actors in the industry to set ambitious, evidence-based environmental impact reduction goals to drive meaningful change to secure a more sustainable future for fashion.

With a view to drive bold Climate Action from the apparel and footwear industries, Quantis carried out a comprehensive study of the environmental impacts across both industries’ value chains. The

core objective is to inform on the current state of these industries’ environmental performance and provide robust data to inform and empower them to use a science-based approach to reduce their impact (for example, by aligning with the Science Based Targets initiative or other leading initiatives). A special focus is put on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as water impact.

Stemming from this overarching ambition, the goals of the present study were defined as follows:

• Quantify the apparel industry’s global environmental impacts across various indicators
• Assess data gaps to be addressed in further studies
• Study both historic and future data points to highlight trends and compare corresponding impact growth rates
• Provide key data-driven takeaways that can be used to promote industry-wide environmental progress of the apparel and footwear industries

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 65

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug:  kostenfrei zum Download

Autor_in: Bahareh Zamani, Gustav Sandin, Greg M.Peters

Schlagwörter: andere Konsummuster, nachhaltiger Konsum, Konsumalternativen, Konsum, Konsumverhalten, Life Cycle, Life Cycle Analysis, Ökobilanz

Kurzbeschreibung:
Fast fashion is a clothing supply chain model that is intended to respond quickly to the latest fashion trends by frequently updating the clothing products available in stores. The shift towards fast fashion leads to shorter practical service lives for garments. Collaborative consumption is an alternative way of doing business to the conventional model of ownership-based consumption, and one that can potentially reduce the environmental impacts of fashion by prolonging the practical service life of clothes. In this study, we used life cycle assessment to explore the environmental performance of clothing libraries, as one of the possible ways in which collaborative consumption can be implemented, and compared the advantages and disadvantages in relation to conventional business models. Furthermore, the key factors influencing the environmental impact of clothing libraries were investigated. We based our assessment on three key popular garments that are stocked in clothing libraries: jeans, T-shirts and dresses. The results showed the benefits of implementing clothing libraries associated with the garments’ prolonged service lives. Therefore to achieve environmental gains, it is important to substantially increase garment service life. Moreover, the results quantitatively demonstrated the potential risk of problem shifting: increased customer transportation can completely offset the benefits gained from reduced production. This highlighted the need to account for the logistics when implementing collaborative consumption business models.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 7

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Text aus Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 162

Für Studenten und Fakultätsmitglieder ist diese Studie kostenfrei verfügbar.

Herausgeber_in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Firmenbefragung, Bio-Baumwolle, Life Cycle, LifeCycle Analysis, Ökobilanz

Kurzbeschreibung:
The goal of this study was to build an up-to date and well-documented Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) for organic cotton fiber (ginned and baled), representative of worldwide global production. In addition, the study provides a full Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of organic cotton fiber (comprising cultivation and ginning operations) and identifies environmental hotspots. To the effect of achieving these goals the relevant ISO standards 14040 and 14044 were followed. The process was verified by an accompanying independent critical review process.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 83 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download (nach Anmeldung)

Herausgeber_in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Bio-Baumwolle, Baumwollanbau, Ökobilanz, Baumwollproduktion,

Kurzbeschreibung:
Quick Guide to Organic Cotton is an overview of the impacts of organic cotton, including frequently asked questions and supporting facts that indicate organic cotton is the best choice for people and planet. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 12 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber_in: Circle Economy

Schlagwörter: Altkleider, Altkleidersammlung, Abfall, Fasern, Fasertechnologie, Hintergrundinformationen, Recycling, Projektbeispiele, Ökobilanz, Zukunft, Zukunftsperspektiven

Kurzbeschreibung:
Circularity has a key part to play not only in dramatically reducing our footprint but also in shaping a visionary and practical future for our planet. It is about becoming inspired by the biological processes of nature while retaining value at the heart of every design, manufacturing, and consumer decision – from renewable energy and remanufacturing of used parts, to the ability for reuse designed into everything we consume. We have witnessed an increased interest in the circular economy, at the political, social and commercial levels, as a possible solution for the world’s biggest problems. The challenge of course is implementation at a practical and scalable level.

Inhalt: Zukunftsweisende Projekte und Forschung zum Thema Kreislaufwirtschaft. In der Kategorie Reports & Insights sind innovative Projekte in Bezug auf Textilrecyling und die Wieder- und Weiterverwendung von Bekleidung zu finden. Außerdem werden Events und Konferenzen für Studierende angeboten.

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Circle Economy

Autor_in: Theodoros Spathas

Schlagwörter: Altkleider, Altkleidersammlung, Abfall, Fasern, Fasertechnologie, Recycling, Ökobilanz, LifeCycle Analysis, Life Cycle

Kurzbeschreibung:
The fashion supply chain is being challenged by a rising global population, increasing wealth and consumerism in the emerging markets, and the phenomenon of fast consumption in the developed world. Enormous strains are put on natural resources to keep up with consumer demand and solutions are needed for the massive waste flows downstream. Currently the main solutions for garments that cannot be reused are landfill, incineration for energy recovery, and downcycling. The latter is the recycling of garments into lower value products, such as insulation or wipers. Landfill and incineration cost money and these options do not deal with the natural resources issue since they do not displace the virgin fibre textiles industry. Downcycling does displace virgin fibre production, but applications have low profitability. High value recycling or “garment to garment recycling“is the concept of recycling used garments and textile waste into new garment products. This concept can reduce some of the pressure on virgin resources, while at the same adding value to waste to make recycling profitable for companies. This research assessed the environmental performance of two garment to garment recycling systems and one scenario as well as one downcycling system, in comparison with their equivalent ones made from virgin materials. The approach was based on life cycle assessment, and the impact categories chosen were climate change, acidification, eutrophication and water consumption. The study included primary data from different processes in the life cycle, including mechanical and chemical recycling, textile collection and manual and automated sorting. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 67 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Autor_in: Barbara Cimattia, Giampaolo Campanab, Laura Carluccio 

Schlagwörter: Nachhaltigkeit, Bekleidungsindustrie, Produktion, Fast Fashion, Leder, Abfall, Schadstoffe, Recycling, Ökobilanz

Kurzbeschreibung:
The Fashion market is characterized by the rapidity with which a product becomes outmoded.
Enterprises producing clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories generate wastes at a fast rhythm, due to the continuous change of collections. They must store notable quantities of textiles and components no longer used for production. Furthermore, the percentage of scraps of fabrics, leather and other materials, is often significant. Recycling can be applied to the Fashion sector in order to recuperate wastes and create original items, which can be particularly successful in a market where customers are increasing their sensitivity towards sustainability.
We describe the case of a prestigious Italian brand, manufacturing high luxury leather and fabric accessories where Eco Design and Recycling have been applied. A Life Cycle Assessment of a traditional product of the company is also presented to enhance the significant aspects of sustainability in Fashion. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 7 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Bezug: Kapitel aus Procedia Manufacturing Volume 8

Für Studenten und Fakultätsmitglieder ist diese Studie kostenfrei unter verfügbar.