Circular economy stakeholder perspectives: Textile ...

Circular economy stakeholder perspectives: Textile collection strategies to support material circularity Val rie Julie Boiten (Prospex Institute), Sara Li-Chou Han (MMU) and David Tyler (MMU) Abstract The Circular economy calls for a coordinated redesign of production and consumption patterns, ensuring that cascading material and product resource use continues for as long as possible. Moving away from the take, make, use and dispose paradigm, the Circular economy aims to extract the maximum value and utility from resources and products, encouraging principles such as zero-waste design, product-life extension and resource recovery, as well as repair and remanufacture services. Beyond waste reduction and recycling, a more Circular Textile sector needs to involve industrial, commercial and policy-making communities; spurring new forms of collaborations between and across traditionally linear value chains. Indeed, whilst technology innovation is crucial, with the search for new and improved ways to sort, separate, decontaminate and recycle Textile fibres, the importance of process and business innovations must not be overlooked.

Key points for circular economy textiles within these proposals include banning the landfill of recyclable plastics by 2025, further promoting the development of markets for secondary raw materials and setting a resource efficiency target which would increase productivity.

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