Business case

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

Increase Awareness

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

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

Fashion and Textiles

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within the same industry

Closed loop upcycling

Designing products so they produce as little waste as possible during production

Design for minimal waste

Solutions at all stages of the textiles value chain.

Zero Waste Textiles

Other

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

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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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                   Nudnik is on a mission to rescue and repurpose unused fabric scraps from a fate worse than death: landfill.      
         Raging war on waste! DISRUPTOR Tee All these beautiful, new, 100% organic cotton fabric scraps were on their way to landfill.
We just had to jump in to save them and give them purpose!  SHOP NOW                   Nudnik is a circular economy think tank created by trailblazing twin sisters Alexandra & Lindsay Lorusso. Equipped with their background in waste management, working for a company co-owned by their father, they’ve suited up to battle the planets second largest global polluter: the fashion industry.   
           In a single year, the fashion industry produces an estimated 92 million tons of textile waste. That’s equivalent to 460,000 blue whales swimming around in a landfill!  It's okay, we've got this!  
           We may be ‘waste chasers’, but we aren’t dumpster divers! Our products are made from clean, unused, post-consumer off-cut fabrics that are 100% organic cotton.  We collaborate with major apparel manufacturers to save perfectly good scraps discarded before they reach landfill. Transforming them into zero-waste products that are cleaning up the planet our little ones will inherit!   
                                                   

      Textiles cutting waste is a byproduct of major apparel manufacturing. There is enough waste created every year by standard cutting practices to give everyone on earth 6x adult sized t-shirts! The Solution: Nudnik designs with waste in mind. For their kids' DISRUPTOR tee collection, they engineered the pattern to make the best use of cutting waste. The style format remains the same, but the colour combinations change so that each size has a unique colourway. Their process uses minimal resources as they keep the cutting waste true to its original form. They also only use 100% cotton which means their tees are 100% compostable.  The Impact: "We were able to create a coveted product made entirely from waste at reasonable scale- the first of many Nudnik products! Their tribe of loyal followers are relying on Nudnik for education about how to live a more circular lifestyle as well as dressing their children in the change they want to see in the world. Our greatest success is when customers buy our product for the look rather than the sustainable aspect. This means that we are converting people who originally thought sustainable products aren't "cool". Nudnik is part of a new wave of businesses making trash look contemporary!" What does Nudnik need at the moment? "Exposure. Once people learn about who we are and what we do they want to buy in -both through our products and our community. We want to work with like-minded folks like Circle Lab to continue to inspire, educate and provide alternative products that do good."   
  

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<p>Nudnik is a kidswear brand that makes clothing from entirely pre-consumer textile waste (off-cut fabrics). Additionally, every garment sold is compostable and all the tags, labels and packaging are all zero-waste.&nbsp;By constructing garments entirely from textile waste, the water and energy typically used in textile manufacturing is eliminated, and off-cut waste diverted from landfills.</p>

Transforming 100% organic off-cut fabrics and end-of-roll threads & trims into unisex, contemporary kidswear

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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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Direct and indirect reduction in economic costs

Cost Savings

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

Use waste as a resource

Designing to reduce waste during production and use

Design out waste

Engage internally to guide employees and facilitate greater knowledge sharing between internal divisions

Internal collaboration

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

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

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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 On the surface, there’s not a lot of crossover between fashion and waste management, but in reality, fast fashion is now the second largest polluter on the planet with way too many tentacles: the chemicals in the dyes, the fact that it takes 2700 litres of water to manufacture one t-shirt, the synthetic blended fabrics shedding microplastics throughout our water systems, and the fact the fashion industry has the highest amount of both pre-consumer and post-consumer waste, with almost everything eventually ending up in landfills or being burned. We just simply weren’t ok with this and set out to shake things up! And we did. We’ve disrupted how we make, package and consume clothing. 




 The form of pre-consumer textile waste Nudnik uses is called 'cutting waste' or 'off/cut fabrics'. These are the smaller scraps of fabric produced during the cutting of garments that are usually landfilled or burned. There is enough cutting waste produced by the industry each year to give every person on the planet 6 new t-shirts! Many people don't view cutting waste as valuable because it comes in small and sometimes irregular shapes, however, the forms of waste that are the most challenging to use is what excites Team Nudnik! We have engineered our products to utilize these small scraps and the result is a cool, contemporary patchwork that has become recognizable around the world.




    
   
   

  

 Kishor Exports is a SA-8000 & GOTS certified garments & home-wear Manufacturing Company (for 100% organic apparels & home textile products).
We at “Kishor Exports” uphold the responsibility towards nature and people. Our company very well understands that well-being of human race is possible only in harmony with nature. That’s why we follow Eco-friendly production processes and works with only those raw material suppliers who are GOTS &Oeko-Tex certified.
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 SA 8000 is an international standard for decent working conditions including: child labor, forced labor, workplace safety and health, freedom of association and right to collective bargaining, discrimination, discipline, remuneration, working hours, and HR management systems.
We have an active focus on social responsibility &we ensure our presence as a sustainable& socially responsible factory with fair working conditions.
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 To improve the condition of farmers in India, the Fairtrade Organization is setting a minimum price that covers the costs & living expenses of the rural farmers.
Additionally, a premium is added to perk up their life & community. It aims to facilitate us achieve better trading conditions. The cotton in products certified by Fairtrade has been grown by farmers who receive a fair deal for their effort. They also receive a premium which goes towards projects within their local community such as building a school or establishing access to water etc.
We are FAIRTRADE certified by FLO-CERT. The independent auditors who execute independent…
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 Sustainability is a worth that is close to our hearts. Sustainability has long been a focus at Kishor Exports, but it is imperative for us to get the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification as it gives our clients confidence in the products and assures them that these products in no way contain chemicals or other dangerous substances that are unfavorable to the health. The Oeko-Tex Standard 100 is the world’s leading human ecology product label for textiles that have been tested for hazardous substance content. Textiles carrying this product…
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  Train, Educate And Rehabilitate Socially is what it stands for. But, in spirits it stands for much more. It stands for hope, development through education early childcare, leisure and recreation.
HOW WE SUPPORT TEARS?
The residual fabric cut offs extracted during cutting are collected & given to TEARS free of cost. With those cut offs, the students weave durries/carpets. We coordinate with the clients & handle the transition of goods. Finally, the clients directly pay to TEARS. For the clients, it is Zero Waste production.
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 We, as a socially & environmentally responsible company believe that small changes can lead to a big impact. As a part of our ZERO WASTE INITIATIVE, Kishor Exports always strive to find an eco-friendly & sustaina ble method to upcycle the leftovers to create intricate, beautifully designed products.
Our production facility is audited & certified by UPMADE- an organization that enables us to apply the industrial upcycling method Upcycling is in fact the process of creating something new & usable from the unusable. It is the best use of available materials……
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 We are a factory that produces sustainably & moreover we think sustainably. We recognize that recycling provides both environmental & economic benefits, like:
– Reduces the need for landfill space
– Reduces pressure on virgin resources
– Saves Energy and Reduces Pollution
– Reduces the demand for dyes and fixing agents
– Encourages the development of additional markets

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<p>Most garment and fabric pieces go through a linear lifecycle. One type of waste is pre-consumer textile waste. Pre-consumer textile waste poses a major concern: raw materials that goes into the production of the textile were extracted for nothing, not to mention the possibilities of any negative externalities that go along during the production stages. Nudnik works with cutting waste as a form of pre-consumer textile waste to make its kids wear collection. It collects the 'wasted' small scraps and works with its manufacturing partners which are GOTS, FAIR TRADE, UPMADE, OEKO-TEX and SA-8000 certified. This helps to minimise any pre-consumer cutting waste going to the landfill, and promote environmental and social justice at the same time.</p>