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This collection has been built by a community of passionate researchers, students, and industry professionals as part of <a href="https://worldcirculartextilesday.com/" target="_blank">World Circular Textiles Day</a> (WCTD). 


World Circular Textiles Day takes place every year on 8th October.  Our vision is to galvanise the collective ambitions and goals of people, organisations and businesses to reach a fully circular textiles world by 2050. Our mission is to provide a framework for circularity stakeholders to develop and deliver a collaborative, evolving roadmap and to chart circularity’s momentum annually from the 8th of October until 2050.

What does fully circular by 2050 mean?
- Shared textile resources, in the form of products and raw materials, are kept in **continual circulation**.
- Virgin resources are **replaced with circular materials**.
- Dignity, equity, and equality for the **people** involved in all parts of the circular value chain.

We need to know where we stand today to chart how to get to 100% Circularity by 2050. What circular activity is currently happening in the textiles and apparel industry, and where in the world is it happening? The WCTD Collection aims to answer this question by building the world’s largest digital library of circular textiles case studies. 

World Circular Textiles Day is proud to be supported by our 2022-23 Circular Hero Partners:
[Lenzing](https://www.lenzing.com/), [Texaid](https://retailsolutions.texaid.com/), [Bank & Vogue](https://www.bankvogue.com/), [Usha yarns limited](https://ushayarns.com/), [The Conduit](https://www.theconduit.com/), and [Asia Pacific Rayon](https://www.aprayon.com/en/)

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World Circular Textiles Day

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Business case

Impact on increased knowledge and understanding as a result of the case study

Increase Awareness

Reduced green house gas emissions released into the biosphere

Reduce Emissions (SDG13)

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

Minimise waste through diversion: Instead of sending waste to landfill, it is redirected into other industrial processes for handling, treatment, recycling, recovery, or reuse in various forms. 

Minimise waste through design: At the outset of a process of project, plan and design such that there is zero waste or minimal waste during production, use, and at end of life. 

Minimise Waste (SDG12)

Producing textile and leather products and processing them into apparel and accessories

Fashion and Textiles

Utilise waste streams as a source of secondary resources and recover waste for reuse and recycling

Use waste as a resource

Engage and guide customers and consumers to ensure circular use of products

Customer / consumer collaboration

Designing products to remove any barriers to recycling and enable easy recyclability

Design for recycling

Make collected and sorted recyclables available for use by citizens, small businesses up to large scale industrial processes. 

Use recyclables

Other

VISION:
Products and services are designed for multiple use and material value retention, with maximum positive impact.

DETAIL: 
Imagine a time when…products flow via optimal collection and distribution streams into reusable and repairable product platforms. Reuse and access models are dominant, and products are designed for multiple recirculation before biodegrading (if designed to do so), or being broken down into reusable raw materials for production. People only consume what they need. Production and consumption wastes have been fully eliminated and multifunctional, season-less and timeless fashions are the norm, yet still fulfil our human need for expression and creativity without constraint. All business models, organisations, governments and citizens play a role in maintaining a healthy, functioning circular ecosystem.

Products and Services

Cycle strategies aim to cycle and reuse materials at their highest value: they maximise the volume of secondary materials re-entering the economy, ultimately minimising the need for virgin material inputs and therefore also narrowing flows. Of course, virgin materials will always be needed to a degree: all materials degrade and can’t be cycled infinitely, use energy, and require blending with virgin materials to maintain strength and functionality.

Cycle

Impacts

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Industries

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The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

Urban Opportunities

It is 2050.  Full systems change has taken place. This wouldn’t have been possible without the immediate action and radical steps taken from 2020 onwards. Many targets had to be identified in the early 2020s and achieved by 2030 to ensure that the 2050 goal happened in full. A sense of urgency, turbo stakeholder collaboration, supportive government regulation and clear, data driven targets enabled the mindsets and systems change needed to transform to a fully circular textiles ecosystem.

A circular economics model underpins what we have created. It reflects and supports a living organism made up of makers, users and restorers, interacting across vibrant and interconnected networks. Checks and balances, alongside transparency and accountability, ensure a healthy system. Financial, environmental, and social metrics have the purpose of serving communities and the planet. There is shared ownership of profit and loss – across all three metrics – throughout the value chain.

This is what we’ve achieved over the last 30 years:

WCTD Themes

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Based on the work of [Bocken et al. (2016)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309699661_Product_design_and_business_model_strategies_for_a_circular_economy), the Four Flows Framework serves as a simple framework for managing resource flows in a circular economy by using less (Narrow), using for longer (Slow), using again (Cycle), and using clean, regenerative materials and energy (Regenerate).

These different principles of circular economy can be applied to our socioeconomic metabolism: we can design stocks like buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and vehicles to be rich resource mines for the future, and design manufactured goods and consumables to be cycled and made regenerative. Furthermore, the focus must also centre on getting more value out of fewer materials. Achieving the aims of a circular economy—minimising material use, regenerating the Earth, and preventing material losses—can be done through these four key strategies mentioned above.

Source: Circle Economy. (2023). *[The circularity gap report 2023](https://www.circularity-gap.world/2023)* (p.22). Amsterdam: Circle Economy. 

Four Flows Framework

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         FABCYCLE is a collection service of textile waste. We work directly with factories, fashion designers and schools to collect their textile waste that is left during the apparel production process (scraps, off cuts, deadstock and end of rolls) and reuse or recycle what they cannot use.
Our mission to divert textile waste from the landfill by finding creative solutions to textile waste and promoting the mindset of waste as a resource.
In February 2019, we opened the Textile Waste ReUSE Centre in Vancouver.
The purpose of the ReUSE Centre is to provide a physical space for the creative community to come together and experiment with textile waste. We encourage artists, designers and creative minds to explore ideas, experiment with scraps and come up with new and exciting ideas to divert textile waste from the landfill.     
          inspirtion ReUSE Community We work with many artists and designers to provide them with materials that they can use in their creative work  See Examples                       service Textile Recycling If your business produces fabric waste on ongoing basis and you'd like to learn more about our fabric waste collection program. click on the link below.   Read more    
         FABCYCLE ReUSE CENTRE
401-268 Keefer StreetVancouver, Canada
Wednesday, 11:00am - 6:00pmThursday, 11:00am - 6:00pmFriday, 11:00am - 6:00pm Get directions   Enter your discount code here  Discount code found, it will be applied at checkout. 

A Vancouver-based social enterprise is celebrating five years of keeping reusable textiles from landfills while inspiring creators and makers in the city.
FABCYCLE is a social enterprise with the mission to divert textile waste from entering the waste stream. Launched by Irina McKenzie in March 2017, the group works directly with local apparel manufacturers like factories, fashion designers, and schools to collect the scraps, off-cuts, deadstock, and ends of rolls for reuse or recycling.
“We make sure that usable materials are circulated back to makers and beautiful new fabrics and supplies are not wasted,” McKenzie explained to Daily Hive. “We collect fabric ends of rolls, sewing trims like zippers and elastic, and even yarn and craft supplies. Anything that can be useful to our community of makers.
“We take what is unwanted and give it a second life.”
FABCYCLE Founder Irina McKenzie at the Textile Waste ReUSE Centre/Submitted McKenzie was inspired to start FABCYLE after learning how much waste was generated by the apparel industry.
“When I started exploring the pre-consumer textile waste stream, I was absolutely astonished to find that brand new fabrics, completely usable threads, and other supplies would end up in the dump,” said McKenzie. “But that is the reality of the apparel industry. If something is not usable, it’s a liability. Fabric can take a lot of expensive space so the easiest way is to dispose of it.
“That’s when I saw a gap between the apparel industry that produces waste and the creative community that perceives it as a resource.”
FABCYCLE Studio Manager Erin Gravelle at the Textile Waste ReUSE Centre/Submitted
McKenzie began to bridge that gap after completing a  social entrepreneurship program with Groundswell Education Society and founding Frameworq Education Society, a local non-profit that teaches basic repair skills in the community.
“Frameworq was what got me into apparel sustainability and textile waste and I connected deeper to the local apparel industry,” said McKenzie. “FABCYCLE grew out of that and it’s been a transformative experience both personally and professionally.”
Since 2017, FABCYCLE has collected over 140,000 pounds of reusable and recyclable fabrics and supplies from local fashion brands, upholstery companies, the film industry and even private sewists with too much material on hand. Those interested in donating can fill out a form online.
Rolls of rescued fabrics at the Textile Waste ReUSE Centre/Submitted
“Once we collect the fabric and supplies, they are taken to our Textile Waste ReUSE Centre on 268 Keefer Street and sorted by different categories in preparation for them to be put on our shelves. So when makers come through our doors, they have a similar experience as a fabric store but with a big difference: everything we have was once considered to be textile waste.
“We prioritize reuse over recycling and as such, we always sort for which materials can be used by our community first. FABCYCLE offers free scraps for crafting and sewing projects and we’ve even had many martial arts hobbyists use our scraps to stuff their punching bags.”
FABCYCLE/Submitted
FABCYCLE also has an online shop showcasing the vast array of saved fabric and supplies, and shipping is available to makers across North America. There is free shipping in Canada for purchases over $100 and free shipping to the US for orders over $150.
Promoting sustainability in the apparel industry is a major component of FABCYCLE’s mission. It facilitates student presentations and info sessions, and McKenzie also started a Facebook group called Vancouver Sustainable Fashion Designers (VSFD) that connects local designers to share resources with one another.
The social enterprise also hosts Unboxing with Erin, a bi-weekly livestream hosted by Studio Manager Erin Gravelle that goes through a recent donation of materials, talks about the various fabrics and textures, and provides ideas of what to do with it.
FABCYCLE/Submitted
“I get to work with unbelievably creative humans,” said McKenzie proudly. “People that not only share similar sustainability values but also continue pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation.
“All the materials we have, have been diverted from landfills and knowing that we make an actual impact by circulating beautiful and usable fabrics back into the hands of makers is so gratifying.”


Canada

Vancouver

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FABCYCLE

<p>FABCYCLE is a textile waste collection service. They work directly with factories, fashion designers, and schools to collect leftover textile waste from the garment production process (waste, offcuts, dead material, and roll ends) and reuse or recycle what they can't use.</p>