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ASOS Circular Design interactive workbook

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ASOS Circular Design interactive workbook

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IDEO-Ellen Macarthur Circular Design Guide

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IDEO-Ellen Macarthur Circular Design Guide

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What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It’s an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future.

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Circular economy examples

GreenWave's polyculture ocean farming method produces a mixture of shellfish and seaweeds in a way that benefits nature.

Circular economy examples

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy

We develop and promote the idea of a circular economy. We inspire and work with business, academia, policymakers, and institutions across the globe. Our vision is an economic system that's better for people and the environment.

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How to Build a Circular Economy | Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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Help build a circular economy: a better system that can help fight climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Explore the solutions for businesses today.

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Circle Economy - Practical, scalable implementation of the circular economy

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OUR FOCUS AREASOur expertise can be applied to any sector, industry, or geography. But we do have specific focus areas:

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A future where humans thrive as part of the Earth’s ecology.

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Design to Minimise wast e

This strategy encourages designers to minimise the waste that is created in the textile industry, both pre and post consumer. It includes zero waste cutting and recycling but it also introduces the idea at the outset that we need to avoid producing stuff that doesnt work, that people dont want.
Design for Cyclability
This strategy explains how when you design for cyclability, the thought process is very different, but totally connected to, the practice of recycling textiles.
Design to Reduce Chemical Impacts
This strategy is about appropriate material selection and processes for any product to minimise environmental impacts.
Design to Reduce Energy and Water Use
Energy consumption and water usage in the textile industry are extremely high and occur at each stage of the lifecycle of textiles - at the production stage, in the use phase (where consumers use and care for textiles and garments) and at the end stage (which covers either disposal and/or re use of the material.
Design that Explores Clean and Better Technologies
Replacing systems of production with less energy consuming and smarter technologies to reduce environmental impacts.
Design That Takes Models for History and Nature
This strategy is about how much textile designers can find inspiration and information for future sustainable design from studying and reflecting upon nature as well as textiles, habits and societies of the past.
Design for Ethical Production
This is about design that utilises and invests in traditional craft skills in the UK and abroad. It is about ethical production which supports and values workers rights, and the sourcing of fair trade materials. It questions what ethical production means, and how it differs for each scale of production and manufacture.
Design to Reduce the Need to Consume
This strategy is about making stuff that lasts, stuff that we really want and want to keep and look after, and the design and production of textiles and products which adapt and change with age. This strategy is also about exploring alternative forms of design and consumption such as co-design and collaborative consumption.
Design to Dematerialise and Develop Systems & Services
This strategy introduces the concept of designing systems and services instead of, or to support, products, e.g. lease, share, repair.
Design Activism
In this final strategy we encourage designers to leave behind the product and work creatively with the consumers and society at large. It is about designing events and communication strategies beyond product design to increase consumer and designer knowledge about the environmental and social impacts of fashion and textiles. Here, the textile designer becomes a 'Social Innovator'. We reflect on how much has changed for textile designers, and how much potential for the future there is!

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Design to Minimise wast e This strategy encourages designers to minimise the waste that is created in the textile industry, both pre and post consumer. It includes zero waste cutting and recycling but it also introduces the idea at the outset that we need to avoid producing stuff that doesnt work, that people dont want.

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CIRCULÉIRE is a public-private partnership created by Irish Manufacturing Research and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and EIT Climate-KIC with 25 Founding Industry Members.

Between 2020 and 2022, CIRCULÉIRE will take manufacturers and their supply-chains on a journey from linear to circular business models through baselining, auditing, business case development and deep demonstration innovation projects delivering significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and in waste production across the network.

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CIRCULÉIRE - The National Platform for Circular Manufacturing in Ireland

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CIRCULÉIRE is a public-private partnership created by Irish Manufacturing Research and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and EIT Climate-KIC with 25 Founding Industry Members.

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EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles

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EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles

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The EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles addresses the production and consumption of textiles, whilst recognising the importance of the textiles sector. It implements the commitments of the European Green Deal, the new circular economy action plan and the industrial strategy.

Textiles are the fabric of everyday life - in clothes and furniture, medical and protective equipment, buildings and vehicles. However, urgent action is needed as their impact on the environment continues to grow. EU consumption of textiles has, on average, the fourth highest impact on the environment and climate change, after food, housing and mobility. It is also the third highest area of consumption for water and land use, and fifth highest for the use of primary raw materials and greenhouse gas emissions.

By looking at the entire lifecycle of textile products and proposing actions to change how we produce and consume textiles, the Strategy presents a new approach, addressing these issues in a harmonised manner.

Objectives

The strategy aims to create a greener, more competitive sector that is more resistant to global shocks. The Commission's 2030 Vision for Textiles is that

all textile products placed on the EU market are durable, repairable and recyclable, to a great extent made of recycled fibres, free of hazardous substances, produced in respect of social rights and the environment

"fast fashion is out of fashion" and consumers benefit longer from high quality affordable textiles

profitable re-use and repair services widely available

the textiles sector is competitive, resilient and innovative with producers taking responsibility for their products along the value chain with sufficient capacities for recycling and minimal incineration and landfilling

Actions

The Strategy lays out a forward-looking set of actions. The Commission will

set design requirements for textiles to make them last longer, easier to repair and recycle

introduce clearer information on textiles and a digital product passport

empower consumers and tackle greenwashing by ensuring the accuracy of companies' green claims

stop overproduction and overconsumption, and discourage the destruction of unsold or returned textiles

harmonise EU Extender Producer Responsibility rules for textiles and economic incentives to make products more sustainable

address the unintentional release of microplastics from synthetic textiles

address the challenges from the export of textile waste adopt an EU Toolbox against counterfeiting by 2023

publish a transition pathway by the end of 2022 - an action plan for actors in the textiles ecosystem to successfully achieve the green and digital transitions and increase its resilience

Timeline

Key dates related to the strategy

1. European Commission adopted the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles

Find out more in the press release, questions and answers, and factsheet

The Commission also presented an outline with possible scenarios for a textiles ecosystem transition pathway, inviting stakeholders to express their views on how best to realise the transition.

2. European Commission adopted new circular economy action plan

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The EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles addresses the production and consumption of textiles, whilst recognising the importance of the textiles sector. It implements the commitments of the European Green Deal, the new circular economy action plan and the industrial strategy.