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

Increase Awareness

Direct and indirect reduction in economic costs

Cost Savings

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)

Providing public and private education and support services at any level or for any profession, and governmental and public administration services, including judicial, regulatory, and legislative activities, taxation, defence, public order and safety, immigration services, foreign affairs and the administration of government programmes

Education and Government Services

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

Design for cyclability

Integrate principles of circularity into primary, secondary and tertiary curriculum and conduct workplace trainings

 Education and Curriculum

Circular Economy in school programmes

Extra-curricular education

Raise awareness and run information campaigns about  strategies for and impacts of the circular economy in different contexts.

Communication and awareness

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:
People are valued and supported in an equitable, socially just and resilient society.

DETAIL:
Imagine a time when…people and communities are at the heart of any sustainable and circular system. The planet thrives, enabling us to survive with balance and abundance. People are no longer passive consumers, but proactive participants. The ‘makers’ who design, build, reprocess and recirculate products throughout the value chain are treated equally and are equitable partners in shaping and benefitting from the system. Textiles/garments can be produced and repurposed locally as well as centrally. A blend of craft methods alongside more automated production provides regionalised, multi-faceted perspectives and fulfilling livelihoods, be they high- or low-tech. Wealth gaps are minimised and dignity, equity, equality is a reality for all.

People and Society

Slow strategies aim to keep materials in use for as long as possible, for example through design for durability and repairability. A more circular economy is also a slower one: materials, components, and products—and even buildings and infrastructure—that we lock in stocks are made to last. This will lower material demand in the long run, in essence also serving to narrow resource flows.

Slow

Impacts

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Industries

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A framework of policy instruments that enabled and encourage the transition to the circular economy

Policy Instruments

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A framework of policy instruments that enable and stimulate the transition to the circular economy

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:

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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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Celebrating sustainable fashion within Wales. An online platform to connect consumers with information and to a community of Welsh sustainable designers, makers, educators and craftivists through the online directory.

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KS3 classroom based activity designed for WCTD. It explores the circular economy within fashion and textiles through a practical activity in which pupils create designs from fabric scraps using a template. Powerpoint and templates provided.

The circular economy within KS3 secondary fashion and textiles education

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

Use waste as a resource

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

'Inform' increases the overall levels of awareness and builds the necessary skills and knowledge around the circular economy to foster long-term change.

Inform

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

A classroom based activity designed for WCTD specifically for Primary and SFT education. It explores the circular economy within fashion and textiles through a practical activity in which pupils create designs from fabric scraps using a template. Powerpoint and templates provided.

The circular economy within Primary and Specialist Teaching Facility (STF) fashion and textiles education

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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 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

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

Eco-conscious Fashion & Textiles Innovation Your guide on the journey from eco-awareness to building an eco-business  Business Model  InnovationThink like a pioneer. Discover opportunities for doing business differently to how you are today. Including circular economy options. Enable your business to adapt, change and flourish. Not only become a market leader but create the new market! Transform your business and be an environmental steward at the same time! ​ Material & Product Innovation Flex your eco credentials and reinvigorate your offering through innovation at the material or product level.  Refreshing your offering signposts you as a future facing organisation, differentiates you from the crowd, and gives you something to shout about. ​ Photo by Mike Petrucci on UnsplashResearch & Writing Putting yourself in your clients shoes, figuring out what is important to them and developing a closer relationship with your client is vital. Using bespoke research to unearth valuable insights gives you confidence in the decisions you make. Producing provoking articles helps develop your position as a thought leader and keeps your clients interested. Using your platform to be part of the change the fashion & textiles industry is undergoing is a brilliant thing to do! ​ Photo by Aaron Burden on UnsplashWorkshops & EventsDevelop your team’s innovation skills, dedicate time and space to creative thinking. Use this time to crack a tough challenge or develop an action plan for a project and have fun at the same time! A range of workshops are available that can help you on your innovation adventure, from introductory creative thinking through to bespoke innovation expeditions.  Learn how to flex your innovation muscles, techniques for creative problem solving and ways you can venture into the unknown and discover opportunities for yourself. ​ Photo by Lina Castaneda on UnsplashMeet AMC Creative Orange Studio
Eco-Innovation GuideAn early fascination with materials and colour sparked my career in textiles for interiors and fashion that has spanned 30 years. I have a unique perspective, forged through roles as a scientist, designer, developer and technologist, working at all levels of the supply chain from manufacturing to retail. As well as being based in the UK & USA working for companies including Interface, Target and Marks and Spencer, I have travelled all over the world working with regional teams and suppliers. Lately I’ve augmented my practical experience of innovation in the field with an MA Innovation Management (Distinction) from Central Saint Martins in London. I lecture about textiles and business at Ravensbourne University and University of Creative Arts. A certified facilitator, a member of the Textile Institute and a fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).curious experimenter maker & thinker the weaving poet big fan of care lover of the colour orange creative being lifelong learner & lecturer researcher & writer owns so many books obsessed by maps multi, trans & inter-disciplinary photographer collaborator let's make that in Lego®"What is an innovation guide anyway?guide (n.) mid-14c., "one who shows the way,"  (online etymology dictionary) Think Sherpas in the Himalayas, Maria whose knowledge about 16th century renaissance painting blew you away on that unforgettable tour of the Vatican, or Ellis who had you in stitches on that open top bus trip around London, and now you can't pass a certain station without singing that Abba song in your head.A guide is someone who goes with you on a journey, they can share their knowledge, but much more they give you the confidence to go somewhere you haven't been before, they can show you the way. A guide has exploration skills which enable them to make sure you are OK, and on the way you will learn something and have a laugh too.  ​ It's the same with an innovation guide. I will go with you on your innovation journey whether that is for a few hours, a few days or a longer expedition. Equipped with skills honed over many years, I will take care of you. Along the way we will explore,discover and laugh together!WHAT PEOPLE SAY"Ann Marie has the ability to think broadly around a subject and link different aspects of a topic, giving her work in a very original style whilst adhering to the original brief." -Kate Berry, Director, QHQ

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This activity was created to mark Fashion Revolution Week within KS3 secondary school classrooms. It was inspired by a concept presented by Ann Marie Newton of Creative Orange Studio at the Sustainable Innovation Conference 2021. It includes all resources needed inc' ppt and templates.