Towards a Nordic textile strategy

Palm, David; Elander, Maria; Watson, David; Kiørboe, Nikola; Salmenperä, Hanna; Dahlbo, Helena; Moliis, Katja; Lyng, Kari-Anne; Valente, Clara; Gíslason, Stefán; Tekie, Haben; Rydberg, Tomas

doi:10.6027/tn2014-538

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“…for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland are shown in the figures below. These have been adapted from Palm et al (2014a). Note: In 2013, textiles put on the Swedish market had reduced to 121,000 tonnes, and reuse increased to 8,600 tonnes, with export remaining at 19,000 tonnes (Elander et al, 2014).…”

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“…Approximately 90% of the reusable collected textiles are exported from the Nordic Region and sold on foreign markets, typically in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia (Watson et al, 2016;Palm et al, 2014a). The non-reusable component is almost entirely down-cycled e.g.…”

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Gaining benefits from discarded textiles

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“…The collection of post-consumer clothes and textiles is a fragmented system and consists of different actors such as charities, municipal recycling centers, social enterprises and several for-profit businesses (Pal, 2017). The dominant actor in current garment collections is the non-profit charity organization (Hawley, 2006, 2015; Palm et al , 2014). For example, in Sweden the charity organizations who collect and handle (sort and resell for reuse and recycling) the used garments represent an estimated 90 percent of the market and the remainder is handled by private actors (Palm et al , 2014).…”

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Toward circular economy of fashion

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Pedersen

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges and solutions emerging when fashion brands develop and test circular economy solutions within their existing business models. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a 34-month case study in a global fashion brand, which launched a new in-store product take-back initiative. Findings The results indicate that fashion brands need to cope with multiple challenges in the process of developing circular business models in the organization, including: diverging perspectives of value and unclear success criteria, poor alignment with existing strategy, limited internal skills and competences, and limited consumer interest. Research limitations/implications The results of this paper are grounded in a single case study and thus limitations associated with broad generalizations apply. In addition, the paper only investigated one aspect of circularity, namely, product take-back and did not investigate design for circularity, product reuse, recycle and other circularity related issues. Originality/value The findings derive from practical experiences of a fashion brand implementing an in-store product take-back system in the existing business model. The study reveals new insights into the actual process of making circular fashion operable.

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“…In the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany, approximately 30% of the wardrobe has not been worn in the last year (WRAP, 2012;Maldini et al, 2017), meaning that we are producing more than needed, and presumably more than we can physically use. Waste management organizations across Europe are struggling to deal with the pace of changes; where more than half of the items discarded are directly incinerated or used for landfill (Morley, Bartlett and McGill, 2009;FFact, 2014;Palm et al, 2014;EcoTLC, 2016). Moreover, international demand of second-hand clothes is dropping together with prices for clothing resales, resulting in higher volume of used textiles that do not find an environmentally-sound destination (Ljungkvist, Watson and Elander, 2018).…”

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The wardrobe as a system: exploring clothing consumption through design fiction

Stappers

Maldini

2019

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This study offers a new perspective on clothing consumption by uncovering the systemic nature of the wardrobe. The research builds on systems theory and aims at drawing a map of the wardrobe as a system with particular structure and behaviour. By co-designing fictional "smart wardrobe" services with experts and discussing these services with wardrobe users, we identify characteristics of wardrobe structure and behaviour that give input for a preliminary wardrobe map. Lastly, the wardrobe map provides a basis for discussing sustainable design approaches aimed at reducing clothing demand, in the context of growing clothing production volume and its associated environmental impacts.

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Towards a Nordic textile strategy

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Gaining benefits from discarded textiles

Gaining benefits from discarded textiles

Toward circular economy of fashion

The wardrobe as a system: exploring clothing consumption through design fiction

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