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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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Starter Kit collection

Business case

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

Increase Awareness

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

Account for the systems perspective during the design process, to use the right materials, to design for appropriate lifetime and to design for extended future use

Design for the future

Designing to enable multiple uses and lifecycles of a product and its materials

Design for cyclability

Designing products so they are able to be easily repaired

Design for repair

Solutions at all stages of the textiles value chain.

Zero Waste Textiles

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

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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:

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                                          Though it may seem counterintuitive, washing and drying your waterproof outerwear — and periodically reapplying durable water repellent (DWR) — will help to ensure it remains water and stain repellant for years to come. Patagonia wants to help you get the most out of your gear; here you'll find brief explanations and some guides to proper care.      If you're on an adventure, miles from civilization, and you rip a hole in your gear you can't just whip out your sewing machine. For those unexpected situations, we've got your back with a special series of on-the-go fixes.      During an extended backcountry trip or a faraway expedition, if your gear breaks, you make a repair. There are no other options. But back at home when something breaks, many people are in the habit of throwing it out. Fortunately, most Patagonia® gear can easily be fixed, so we've partnered with iFixit to show you, step-by-step, how to repair your Patagonia® clothing. A patch on your jacket or a gleaming new zipper not only gives you bragging rights, but completing the repair yourself extends the life of your gear. Learn more about the Patagonia Worn Wear® Program on iFixit.com.     







Lasting Function and a Commitment to Repair
In a landscape of disposable ski and snowboard fashion, fixing and keeping your snow gear in play is the most radical act we know. On average, most of us keep a piece of clothing for just three years, yet the materials and processes for making any new garment are tremendously costly to the planet. The average U.S. citizen throws away 70 pounds of clothing and other textiles each year, of which 85 percent goes to landfills. Only 15 percent is donated or recycled, although most discarded clothing is suitable for reuse.
We build your winter garments and equipment to last. We want you to keep them in use—to love them for the experiences you’ve had with them the way so many have been trained to love brand new things for their pristine novelty. Like a good backcountry partner, your snow garments become something you can trust; you know what they can survive and where they thrive. They’ve trudged the last steps to faraway summits and toughed it out on multi-day missions. They’ve been immersed in the season’s best turns and endured a few tears and repairs along the way. Why wouldn’t you keep them around? Just to swap them for next season’s color?











Crested Butte Ski Patroller Ellie Atkins gives her jacket the good ol’ duct tape treatment inside the patrol shack—a temporary fix to get her through the day. Crested Butte, Colorado. Photo: Jeff Cricco







 



At Patagonia there are two ways we are changing our relationship to things: first, our dedicated approach to building durable, meant-to-last high-performance products with recycled inputs wherever possible. For example, this season our pinnacle PowSlayer Jacket and Bibs are now built with 100% recycled GORE-TEX® Pro face fabric. And second, our commitment to repairing, repurposing or recycling your garments at the end of their life.
We discovered about 10 years ago, after publicly committing to take back from customers anything we’ve ever made, that in the “Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle” mantra, recycle comes last for good reason. Some things shouldn’t be made, or bought, in the first place. Everything made comes with more environmental cost than we can repay. Whatever breaks should be fixable. And whatever still works, yet merely hangs in a closet or sits in a garage, should be put back in circulation.
Each time we have ramped up our repair facility in Reno, we have outgrown our capacity within months to the point where we now operate the largest clothing repair facility in North America (repairing about 50,000 pieces per year).











Repair Tech Andy Cook fixes one of the nearly 50,000 garments repaired at our Reno facility last year. Photo: Tim Davis










Looking down on our Reno distribution center and repair facility. A short walk over the Truckee River gives employees access to an extensive trail system behind the building. The shoulder of Peavine Peak beckons in the distance. Reno, Nevada. Photo: Tim Davis










Patagonia Repairs Supervisor Tanya Nawrocki looks for matching trim pieces (zippers, buttons, pulls). Photo: Fred Marmsater










Patagonia Repair Tech Manuel Rivera fixes a ski patrol jacket. Photo: Ken Etzel










The boneyard: Repair techs will pull usable parts and fabrics from these shells when needed. Photo: Tim Davis










Andy Cook removes a strip of seam sealing tape from the zipper backing of a PowSlayer Jacket after heating/loosening it up on a Geo Knight heat press machine. Photo: Tim Davis










When a garment can’t be repaired, it doesn’t get thrown away. These bails of irreparable garments are ready to be upcycled, recycled and/or repurposed. Photo: Tim Davis



  

   Fashion, clothing and textiles    Patagonia - Worn Wear Program   What is it?  Worn Wear is Patagonia's product life extension hub ‘because the best thing we can do for the planet is cut down on consumption and get more use out of stuff we already own’ (Patagonia, 2020). Why is this important? The clothing industry is one of the most polluting industries. Conventional (non-organic) cotton production is a vast consumer of water and pesticides. Polyester and nylon are made of manmade materials consuming energy and resources. Clothing is also a massive source of obsolescence and waste. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2017) estimates that “USD 500 billion value is lost every year due to clothing being barely worn and rarely recycled”. Main resource strategy: slowing resource loops by allowing clothing and other outdoor gear to last for a longer time. Patagonia also created a ‘recrafted collection’ based on remanufacturing used clothes into new ones. Other resource strategies: closing the loop (e.g. facilitating recycling after multiple reuses); building quality new products initially will allow for future circular activities (repair, resale, upcycle) Business model aspects: Patagonia is extending the product value of its range: Patagonia has a trade-in and resell model so it can resell 2ndhand products on its online platform. The customer trading in items receives a fee for its traded in product and Patagonia sells it on with a margin after quality curation on its platform.  Value Proposition: Quality products as a reduced price; a valuable clothing reuse option for Patagonia customers Value Creation & Delivery: Consumers can trade in their used products, receive a trade-in price, and Patagonia will give up to $100 in vouchers to be used online or in their stores (Patagonia, 2018). Value Capture: Trade-in prices range from $10 for children’s gear and less technical items up to $100 for more technical items, such as alpine insulation jackets. (Patagonia, 2018). Fleeces are sold for roughly $ 45 – 100 and jackets for $ 60- 400 showing the potential profit margins after any cleaning and repairs.  Business model experimentation practices: Patagonia started off by a collaboration with eBay (Common Threads Initiative) where Patagonia pledged to ‘build useful things that last, to repair what breaks and recycle what comes to the end of its useful life’, whereas customers were asked to only buy what is needed and will last, make repairs, reuse and recycle, and consider second hand products (Bocken & Short, 2016). Moreover, Patagonia hosts a repair website in collaboration with iFixit (2020). These may have been the starting point for further experimentation that has led to the Worn Wear platform. Sustainability outcomes: It is estimated that Patagonia has sold 120,000 repurposed items to date (Batten, 2020).  Some estimates suggest that buying used garments rather than new ones could reduce an individual’s apparel carbon footprint by up to a 60% (Batten, 2020). Furthermore, an increase of 10% in second-hand sales could cut carbon emissions per tonne of clothing by 3% and water use by 4%, if it extends garment life by 50% (WRAP, 2017). Exact numbers vary and depend on how long the product life is extended and the use phase, i.e., how often and how the clothing is washed. Sources:  Batten (2020). Patagonia’s Worn Wear Collection Is Saving the Planet. Accessed 25 November 2020 at:https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/oatagonia-worn-wear-collection-recycled-recommerce/ Bocken, N. M., & Short, S. W. (2016). Towards a sufficiency-driven business model: Experiences and opportunities. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 18, 41-61. Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2017), A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future. Accessed 25 November at:  http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications iFixit. (2020). Accessed 25 November at:  https://www.ifixit.com/Patagonia Patagonia (2018). PATAGONIA TRADE-IN VALUES. Accessed 25 November at:  https://wornwear.patagonia.com/assets/WW-TRADE-IN-VALUES.pdf Patagonia (2020), Wornwear website. Accessed 25 November at:  https://wornwear.patagonia.com WRAP (2017). Valuing Our Clothes: the cost of UK fashion (July 2017) *** About project Circular X  Project Circular X is about ‘Experimentation with Circular Service Business Models’. It is an ambitious research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) which supports top researchers from anywhere in the world. Project CIRCULAR X runs from 2020-2025.  The project is led by Principal Investigator (PI) Prof Dr Nancy Bocken, who is joined by a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI), Maastricht School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University. The project cooperates with businesses who want to innovate towards the circular economy.   Project Circular X addresses a new and urgent issue: experimentation with circular service business models (CSBMs). Examples of such new business models include companies shifting from selling products to selling services and introducing lifelong warrantees to extend product lifetimes. However, CSBMs are far from mainstream and research focused on experimentation is little understood.  The research aims to conduct interdisciplinary research with 4 objectives:    Advancing understanding of CSBMs; their emergence and impacts  Advancing knowledge on CSBM experimentation  Developing CSBM experimentation tools Designing and deploying CSBM experimentation labs  Funding source   This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 850159.    Using of this information  When you cite this publication, please use the following source: Circular X. (2020) Case study: Patagonia - Worn Wear Program, Accessed from www.circularx.eu 

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Patagonia, Inc. is an American retailer of outdoor clothing. It was founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and is based in Ventura, California.
Patagonia is known for its upscale outdoor clothing and various environmental sustainability efforts. The company continues to grow by offering products that are designed to last.

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iFixit is a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything. Anyone can create a repair manual for a device, and anyone can also edit the existing set of manuals to improve them. Our site empowers individuals to share their technical knowledge with the rest of the world.

iFixit

Patagonia is an outdoor clothing brand headquartered in the United States. In autumn 2015, the company started its Worn Wear program under the motto “Repair is a Radical Act,” an initiative started by CEO Rose Marcario. The program aims to explain to customers the value of preserving clothes by repairing them instead of buying new. Patagonia’s environmentally friendly campaign aims to counter fast fashion trends and increasing demand for new clothes, by encouraging quality standards that produce clothes designed to last.

Patagonia Worn Wear - Repair program for clothes

Article / Report

Producing electronics products for businesses and consumers, including cellular phones, personal computers, printers, servers, electronic computer components and peripherals, TVs, audio equipment, as well as household appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines, etc.

Electronics and Appliances

Use digital, online platforms and technologies that provide insights to track and optimise resource use, strengthen connections between supply chain actors, and enable the implementation of circular models



Incorporate digital technology

Upgrade, repair, and maintenance while in-use

Maximise lifetime of products in-use

Providing repair services or maintenance services for products or parts

Product maintenance, repair

Providing DIY repair kits or spare part programmes for enabling self-repair

Self-repair, spare part service

Extraction and reuse of parts from end-of-life products for use in new products

Part recovery

Preserving and conserving biological products such as food, forests, etc.

Preservation, conservation

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

Online platforms

Implementation of strategies to collect recyclable waste in order to make it accessible and available to be used as an input in industrial processes (big or small). These are door-to-door collection (higher recovery rates but more costly intensive), drop-off schemes (cheaper but less effective, more common in cities with high housing density), or a combination of the two, and their corresponding incentive schemes. 

Collect recyclables

In the context of cities, regenerating ecosystems refers to the active protection of native habitats or the conservation and restoration of natural habitat analogues. Examples: reforestation and afforestation in urban contexts, protection of birds and local wildlife, management of green spaces, and removal of waste and plastic (or other anti pollution measures).

Regenerate ecosystems

Solutions at all stages of the Electronics Value Chain

Zero Waste Electronics

 iFixit is a global repair community of people helping each other fix their stuff. We are millions of tinkerers, technicians, and volunteers working together to help people repair their devices every day. Why? Because most companies don't provide repair parts and documentation. We believe that everyone has the right to maintain and repair their products—however they see fit. Together we’re fixing the world, one broken gadget at a time! Be sure to sign up for our News List to be one of the first to receive our Teardowns and Press Releases. For media inquiries and interview requests, please email olivia@ifixit.com. Our customer service team can also be reached via email. If you need a higher-quality logo to use with an article, email cynthia@ifixit.com and she’ll be happy to help you out. Our logos are trademarks of iFixit and are not authorized for other uses without explicit permission. We love seeing our beautiful photos regularly reprinted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and a wide variety of magazines and online publications, and appreciate links back to iFixit.com in image attribution. If you’d like to use any of our photos for a story, please email olivia@ifixit.com. Our content is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, which does not allow it to be used for commercial purposes. Please see the Content Licensing page for all the specifics. We’re thrilled that our customers and the press have a lot to say about us. We keep ourselves busy by tearing down the world’s latest gizmos and creating repair guides to help you fix your stuff. Stay up-to-date on all things iFixit by subscribing to our newsletter, and following us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We also cover tech news, share our gadget-y opinions, and write guides to help you make the most of your stuff. You can see our ramblings on the front page of iFixit, as well as a few other places around the web. Here’s some stuff we’ve written recently: Got a story idea for us? We think that’s great. Feel free to send it to kevin@ifixit.com. iFixit was founded in 2003 by Luke Soules and Kyle Wiens in a dorm room at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It all started when the two of them tried to fix an old iBook. With no instructions, they started the way everyone does: the hard way. After some tinkering, fiddling, broken tabs, and lost screws, they finally fixed it! As they tried to fix other devices, they had trouble finding parts, instructions, and the right tools for the job. So they bought broken computers on eBay and harvested parts. Then they decided to sell parts themselves and create repair guides for the devices they fixed… and the rest is history. Learn more about how we got started on our background page. CEO & Co-founder: Kyle Wiens CXO & Co-founder: Luke SoulesFounded: 2003Repair Manuals: 50,000+Solutions: 145,000+Devices: 14,000+Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and JapaneseOffices: San Luis Obispo, California, and Stuttgart, Germany After tearing down hundreds of devices, we’ve learned a thing or two about the tools we use to get the job done. Our team designs, engineers, and manufactures the world’s best electronics repair tool and backs them with a Lifetime Warranty. Check out our industry-leading Pro Tech Toolkit. If you’re interested in reviewing our tools for your publication, please contact kelsea@ifixit.com. We get so many requests that we must require your publication have an audience in excess of 10,000 subscribers. 

iFixit is a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything.

The Free Repair Manual

Designing products of multiple parts that can be easily exchanged

Design for modularity

  iFixit   Hello from the future, where we’ve got VR tech right in our homes. Spoiler alert, though—stuff still breaks in the future, and we still need to repair it. The good news is that HTC Vive wants you to repair your own VR devices, and they are partnering with iFixit to make it happen.  HTC Vive customers in North America can purchase OEM replacement parts for VIVE CE and VIVE PRO headsets, VIVE Wireless Adapter, VIVE Tracker, and other peripherals on ifixit.com. iFixit also offers repair guides for the headsets and original VIVE controllers.  Virtual Reality is taking off in the COVID-19 pandemic, even as manufacturers have closed repair options for their customers. The ability to repair our devices and access replacement parts and repair information is more important than ever. HTC Vive is making strides to empower their customers to extend the life of their products. “This is groundbreaking. HTC is the first VR manufacturer to support their customers with the parts they need to keep their headsets functional,” said iFixit CEO, Kyle Weins. “iFixit is thrilled to help gamers fix their meatspace hardware so they can get back to their important cyberspace business.” Find the list of available parts here.          Gadgets          Right to Repair          Teardowns      

  HTC VIVE®, the leader in premium virtual reality (VR), announced today that it is partnering with iFixit, the leading supplier of replacement parts, toolkits, and repair guides for today’s most utilized consumer electronic devices. iFixit will offer official HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) system parts and accessories, empowering customers to extend the life of out-of-warranty products, while saving on both time and costs associated with hardware repairs & “down-time”.
“We hear from many customers who love their original HTC Vive headsets after years of use, but occasionally still need a specific part,” said Daniel O’Brien, General Manager, HTC America. “By partnering with iFixit, we’re taking an unprecedented approach to meeting the demands of our long-time customers who want to repair and continue to use their beloved headsets that may be out of warranty or no longer available through us.”
“This is groundbreaking. HTC is the first VR manufacturer to support their customers with the parts they need to keep their headsets functional,” said Kyle Weins, CEO and Co-founder, iFixit. “iFixit is thrilled to help gamers fix their meatspace hardware so they can get back to their important cyberspace business.”
HTC Vive customers in North America may now order specific replacement parts for VIVE CE and VIVE PRO headsets, VIVE Wireless Adapter, VIVE Tracker, and other peripherals such as wall mounts and cables. Additionally, iFixit offers repair guides for the headsets and original VIVE controllers.
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  HTC has partnered with iFixit to make its Vive virtual reality systems more repairable, selling a list of screws, cables, adapters, and other standalone components directly to consumers. In a blog post, HTC says the move is aimed at helping people whose headsets are out of warranty or potentially no longer being sold. iFixit also offers repair guides for the original Vive, the Vive Pro, the original Vive controller, and the Vive Pro Eye.
HTC confirmed to The Verge that this is the first time consumers have been able to order many of these replacement parts directly. A few listings, like a $3.99 controller lanyard, wouldn’t be hard to find through other sellers. But VR headsets are specialized and niche devices, so if you want a replacement foam pad ($19.99) and set of headphones ($59.99) for your Vive audio strap, or you’ve lost the power adapter for your link box ($19.99), this is a lot more reliable than hunting for an unofficial replacement.
The Vive, first released in 2016, has always been a relatively modular headset compared to the Sony PlayStation VR or Oculus Rift and Quest lineup. HTC has released several upgrade kits with features like wireless streaming and eye tracking, some of which have been later integrated into standalone headset packages. (Its latest module is a lip tracker.) The consumer-focused Vive Cosmos — which iFixit doesn’t list an official guide for — comes in multiple variants with different swappable faceplates. The entire Vive ecosystem is built on top of Valve’s SteamVR, and some pieces are cross-compatible with the Valve Index. As HTC keeps building out its ecosystem, a home repair option seems like a natural fit for the brand.
  


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HTC Vive customers in North America can purchase OEM replacement parts for VIVE CE and VIVE PRO headsets, VIVE Wireless Adapter, VIVE Tracker, and other peripherals on ifixit.com. iFixit also offers repair guides for the headsets and original VIVE controllers.