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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 availability of resources as well as their effect on living organisms, ecosystems, and components of the environment.

Ecological Impact

Impacts on the social fabric of the community and well-being of the individuals and families.

Social Impact

Impacts on the financial condition of a company, as well as the the economicconditions of its stakeholders and on economic systems at local, national, andglobal levels.

Economic Impact

Impact on the quantity or quality of jobs, and shifts in the labour market

Jobs

Scalability

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)

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

Producing and providing business and consumer goods and services

Goods and Services

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

Work together throughout the supply chain, internally within organisations and with the public sector and communities to increase transparency and create joint value

Team up to create joint value

Reuse, repurpose, and recycle waste streams within other industries

Valorise waste streams - open loop

Industry peers to industry peer collaboration to create joint value and identify synergies

Industry collaboration

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within other industries

Open loop upcycling

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

Cross-industry projects, pilots

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

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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 Cadastre-se e fique por dentro das novidades      A ação de transformar peças descartadas ou deixadas à margem responde a um dos desafios mais urgentes da humanidade: repensar a produção e reduzir o consumo. Upcycling é o processo de transformar materiais ou produtos descartados ou deixados à margem em novos produtos,agregando valor e sentido. Aplicando o upcycling como processo criativo e produtivo, nos comprometemos a trabalhar em prol de um futuro mais sustentável.        Conheça todos nossos produtos  
          Assim funciona nosso trabalho de redesign: aplicamos o Sistema Comas de Upcycling Raiz para transformar peças prontas (estoques inativos, peças com defeitos, grades furadas, pos-consumo) em novos produtos. “É uma outra economia onde o design está presente e desenha com o já desenhado e descartado” Loschiavo, 2014   
     O objetivo das mentorias é ajudar ao cliente a resolver questões e desafios pontuais nas diferentes fases de projetos vinculados ao upcycling e o redesign.   Quer saber mais         
          O objetivo é capacitar a equipe da empresa com as ferramentas para aplicar o upcycling e redesign dentro dos seus processos de trabalho.   quer saber mais    
  BLOGUP - NEWS           "Sinergia é palavra que traduz as novas criações que as marcas Comas e Flavia Amadeu trazem juntas para a passarela do Brasil Eco Fashion Week 2020."                  Vejam as peças Top Linho Burano Collab Comas Upcycling Amarelo Top Linho Burano Collab Comas Upcycling Branco Top Linho Burano Collab Comas Upcycling Marinho Saia Midi Modal Bogliasco Collab...              Fashionrevolution nos convidou para fazer uma receita de transformação de uma peça para Unibes. Decidimos fazer um avental ou solera  a partir de uma camisa. Bora fazer? nos contem como...        

   Atuamos diariamente guiados por nossa tríade MISSÃO, VISÃO e VALORES num momento de transição para um mundo mais justo e sustentável.  
   MISSÃO 
Impactar positivamente produzindo moda fitness de alta qualidade, mantendo a excelência já reconhecida pelo mercado, com comprometimento e responsabilidade socioambiental. Queremos contribuir para uma cultura consciente de produção e de consumo, respeitosa e humana para fortalecer o crescimento saudável da empresa, clientes e colaboradores.
 VISÃO
Através de tecnologia e informação, focados em sustentabilidade social e ambiental, buscamos uma dinâmica empresarial com potencial para ser um modelo de inovação no mercado da moda. Investimos em pesquisa e certificações que fundamentam ideias e práticas internas capazes de transformar positivamente modos de produção e o dia a dia dos nossos colaboradores. Incentivamos as auditorias nas empresas subcontratadas para garantir uma cadeia confiável para os nossos clientes. Acreditamos no poder transformador da educação e do bem-estar, no espírito colaborativo e no compartilhamento do conhecimento. Nossa motivação é a excelência com responsabilidade. E, acima de tudo, queremos nos atualizar, nos aproximando cada vez mais dos propósitos das ODS (Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da ONU).  

Brazil

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T.Christina

Upcyling fashion brand (product and services), São Paulo, Brasil.

Comas

Rani

The Brazilian sportswear factory T.Christina has developed, in collaboration with COMAS (upcycling services), an upcycled textile that allows reusing the cutting waste generated in the cutting process. The developed fabric does not require new technologies since it is made by factory manufacturers using a flat seam machine, common in the production of sportswear.

T.Christina: reusing cutting waste in the sportswear industry

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Rampant material extraction is pushing the ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to their limits. Over 11% of global raw materials are extracted within the region, yet it represents only about 8% of the world's population.

[*The Circularity Gap Report* (CGR) Latin America and the Caribbean](https://www.circularity-gap.world/lac), a first of its kind, demonstrates how the region can leverage the circular economy to tackle systemic inefficiencies in satisfying societal needs, conserve its unique natural wealth, and improve its people’s well-being.

To devise pathways for a circular transition, the report analysed the sectors where circular interventions could yield the most positive impact—environmentally, economically, and socially. This entails shifting to a circular food system, building a circular built environment, advancing circular manufacturing, transforming the energy system, reducing waste generation, and improve waste cycling.

[Circle Economy](https://www.circle-economy.com/) is a global impact organisation with an international team of passionate experts based in Amsterdam. We empower industries, cities, and nations with practical and scalable solutions to put the circular economy into action. Our vision is an economic system that ensures the planet and all people can thrive. To avoid climate breakdown, our goal is to double global circularity by 2032. Through the Circularity Gap Reporting Initiative, our mission is to deliver Circularity Metrics that measure the state of the global and national economy and identify key levers to transition to circularity. 

Latin America Collection

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Impact on the ease of innovation, and facilitating uptake of innovations

Innovation

São Paulo

The Brazilian upcycling company COMAS, run by designer Agustina Comas, has been working since 2014 transforming deadstock man's shirts into new garments.In this way, the brand not only contributes to reducing the volume of textile waste generated by companies, but also avoids the use of virgin materials and wet processes in its collections.