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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 the ease of innovation, and facilitating uptake of innovations

Innovation

Scalability

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)

Reduced use and withdrawal of water and rate of recycling and reuse of water

Save Water (SDG6)

Reduced use of fossil fuel energy sources and/or increased use of renewable energy

Reduce Energy Consumption

Collecting waste from households and businesses by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc., and providing treatment, incineration, materials recovery and reclamation, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste

Waste Management

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

Fashion and Textiles

Providing goods on the Internet, through mail order, or television, or providing goods in stores, including apparel, electronics, furniture, food and drug, etc.

Retail

Collection programmes that process products and parts for reuse or recycling within the same industry

Closed loop collection

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within the same industry

Closed loop upcycling

Using waste materials that have been processed and recycled to produce new products within the same industry

Using closed loop recycled materials

Designing products so they use as little materials, water, energy, etc. as possible during use

Design for resource efficiency

Designing products of multiple parts that can be easily exchanged

Design for modularity

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

Design for recycling

Designing products to be reused for the same or different purposes in multiple lifecycles

Design for reuse

Working together with stakeholders and parties in other unrelated industries to implement circular economy strategies and opportunities

Cross-industry projects, pilots

Developing or utilising online platforms to enable circular economy opportunities through information, product or service offering

Online platforms

VISION:
Raw materials are renewable, recyclable and safe, kept in continual circulation.

DETAIL:
Imagine a time when…the raw materials that are used to make things are sourced from existing products and regenerative agriculture, via carbon negative and climate neutral processes. Biodegradable raw materials are used for products with biodegradable end routes. Toxic chemicals have been washed out of the global materials pool, disposed of safely and replaced with beneficial alternatives. Virgin fibres made from fossil fuels have been banned, while secondary synthetic fibres, derived from what was already in the system, are kept in constant circulation as a resource. Circularity accounting methods, built on science-based metrics, help to manage a balanced system of resources, across all industries, and in line with the planet’s environmental limits.

Raw Materials and Planetary Boundaries

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

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

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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  Con gli anni,visto il mutamento del terziario biellese, è cresciuta la volontà di sviluppare collaborazioni per realizzare tessuti tecnici,in particolare filtri per la depolverizzazione e tessuti antifiamma. Tutta questa esperienza ci ha portato a conoscere e lavorare fibre nuove,e mettendo a disposizione il nostro Know how, abbiamo interagito con i nostri clienti per lo studio e la produzione di articoli innovativi,alcuni dei quali brevettati. A oggi disponiamo di una sala tessitura,orditura e controllo che ci permette di effettuare e monitorare le lavorazioni direttamente in tutte le fasi.Inoltre offriamo un servizio di progettazione e consulenza per la produzione di articoli seguendo anche le lavorazioni di finissaggio. Avendo come obbiettivo il conseguimento di standard qualitativi elevati,abbiamo deciso di monitorare e tracciare la produzione tramite sistema di qualità conforme ai requisiti della norma UNI EN ISO9001:2008.    

The awareness of the end-consumer has changed, especially during the past years. Criteria relating to the sustainability of brands have become increasingly important in purchase decisions. Caring about the end-of-life of once produced and sold products is one way to contribute and communicate a brands sustainability effort in helping to close the textile circle.
To meet today’s needs, TEXAID provides a system, that allows to collect online used textiles and shoes. This system runs under the TEXAID’s brand PACKMEE in collaboration with fashion brands and retailers. PACKMEE can also be run as a white-label solution in the look and feel of our partners corporate identity and design. Click here to find more information about PACKMEE .
Besides the online take-back system, TEXAID also offers to operate in-store take-back collection for used textiles and shoes at fashion retailers or brands point of sale. Where necessary, TEXAID provides the administrative services for the proper registration of collections.
Based on the requirements of the fashion retailer or brand, sales and marketing measures such as discount vouchers can be integrated in the online as well as in the offline take-back system.


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TEXAID offers closed recycling loops for clothes, shoes and home textiles. The company also supports research towards further closing the textile cycle. 

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Texaid

With the world’s leading, branded recycled fiber, we help you design products that tell an amazing sustainability story—traceable, transparent and certifiably sustainable. We’re obsessed with doing everything we can to make sure you can trust us and our products, including developing our own verification program and maintaining third-party certifications.

Then we take it even further. Putting sustainability and innovation together in REPREVE polyester: with high-performing technologies consumers can’t live without.

Unifi, Inc.

T.F.C. was founded in 1989 as a third-party weaving mill, collaborating with important Biella wool mills. Over the years, T.F.C. started developing collaborations to create technical fabrics, in particular filters for dedusting and flame-retardant fabrics. All this experience has led us to know and work with new fibers, focusing strongly on this know-how and interacting directly with our customers for the study and production of innovative articles.


Tessitura Casoni

The Marchi & Fildi Group
Marchi & Fildi was born in 2007 through the fusion of the two companies Filatura Marchi and Filatura Fildi, owned by the families Marchi and Dissegna. Filidea is the youngest company of the Group, it was born in 2008.

The Marchi & Fildi Group's proposal for the fashion world consists of linear or circular knitting, weaving and hosiery. The distinguishing element in the collections is the focus on sustainability, which starts with the selection of the raw materials and finishes with the Ecotec® brand owned by Marchi & Fildi. The Filidea brand presents an assortment of natural, sustainable, and certified yarns designed for the high-quality market sector. Filidea, with the brand Filidea Technical Yarns, is also specialised in the production and development of technical yarns intended for protective and work clothing, for the automotive industry and various industrial uses.

Sustainable innovation has always represented a fundamental pillar for the Group. The Research and Development pilot plant and the modern dyeing mill with lower environmental impact, joined with the continuous collaboration with universities, research centers and several partners for the development of special projects.
Today, with the entry of the third generation of entrepreneurs, Marchi & Fildi S.p.a is a group of mills which is known internationally and which has a constant rate of growth.

Marchi & Fildi S.p.a.

TEXAID has enabled the recycling of post-consumer textile waste into new textiles. After two years of R&amp;D, TEXAID has developed, a fabric using 50% post-consumer textile waste from used clothing. The fabric is a blend of 50% post-consumer cotton textile waste which TEXAID has collected in their sorting facilities in Germany and Switzerland. The other 50% is made from ocean-bound plastic waste. This is plastic that has a high risk of entering the ocean which has been saved and recycled by Unifi, Inc. The cotton material was shredded by Marchi &amp; Fildi Group, based in Biella Italy, who then spun the recycled cotton and recycled polyester into a new yarn. This yarn was then woven into a fabric by Tessitura Casoni T.F.C. The entirely European supply chain was able to have a strong focus on transparency and traceability. This is a proof of concept that a 100% recycled fabric with 50% post-consumer textile waste is possible, which is an important step towards textile-to-textile recycling happening at scale in the textile industry today.&nbsp;