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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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Business case

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

Increase Awareness

Direct and indirect effects that increase revenues or the potential for new revenues, for example from new products, customer segments, partnerships or business models

Revenue Potential

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

Innovation

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

Contributing to the improvement of biodiversity including species diversity, total number of protected species, and ecosystem health

Biodiversity

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

Fashion and Textiles

Using bio-based materials such as bioplastics, mushroom-based materials, etc.

Alternative bio-based materials and inputs

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

Design for minimal waste

Designing products that can easily breakdown and degrade in the environment

Design for bio-degradability

Working together with industry peers to engage in business activities or exploratory projects that advance the circular economy

Joint industry ventures, projects, pilots

Provide guidance or professional training to educate employees to use circular economy principles

Training on the circular economy

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

Online platforms

Developing or utilising online marketplaces to enable the peer-to-peer exchange of products and services

Peer-to-peer online marketplaces

Circular Economy in school programmes

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

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

Policies

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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:

WCTD Themes

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Indonesia

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GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit )

A global fashion house under the umbrella of one of the major players in the textile industry in South East Asia, the PT. Pan Brothers Tbk. & Group. 

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Hollit International’s key for success has always been its focus on closing the gap between global brands and production floors across the entire supply chain. 

Our core values lie in the full-hearted commitment to sustainability. The global fashion house strives in being an efficient solution provider.


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PT. Hollit International

The roots of our company can be traced to two separate business concerns: PT. Pan Brothers Tbk. & Group, and PT. Hollit International. 

Both these companies have been recognized in their own right as established producers of casual wear, sportswear, and active wear for men, women and kids. 

By coming together to form PT. Eco Laundry Hijau Indonesia, the combined vision of these two companies is now focused on building a comprehensive new future together, through vertical and sustainably integrated processes.

PT. Eco Laundry Hijau Indonesia (ELHI)

Established in 1980, PT. Pan Brothers Tbk (PBRX) is one of the largest garment manufacturing companies in Indonesia. With headquarters in Tangerang, Indonesia and manufacturing facilities located in Tangerang, Bandung, Boyolali, Sragen, Ungaran and Tasikmalaya, PBRX and its subsidiaries manufacture all kinds of garments using various fabrics, ranging from performance wear to woven garments. Their vision is to become an integrated and worldwide sustainable apparel supplier. 

PT. Pan Brothers Tbk. & Group

Closed Loop Fashion (CLF) consulting is a collective of sustainability experts with a wide range of specializations related to textile- and apparel production. The company supports fashion brands, retailers, textile manufacturers, and related organizations, with custom-tailored projects and strategies to drive sustainable and circular practices. With a decade of experience in sustainable fashion and circular economy, Closed Loop Fashion offers advanced, practical and holistic tools to textile industry stakeholders, mainly in Asia. By identifying new circular and sustainable benchmarking practices Closed Loop Fashion creates added value and helps drive systemic change. Their focus is in social and environmental compliance, chemical and textile waste management and advancing strategies in corporate social responsibility.

Closed Loop Fashion

WE REDESIGN THE FUTURE OF PLASTIC THROUGH BIOBASED BIODEGRADABLE & OXO-BIODEGRADABLE TECHNOLOGY

Greenhope is a green technology company with two leading brands: Oxium (oxo-biodegradable additive) & Ecoplas (certified fair trade cassava-based biodegradable bioplastic), based in Indonesia. 

Ecoplas has received numerous acknowledgments and awards domestically and internationally as one of the most competitive bio-based materials towards next generation/ sustainable green plastic. 

They actively collaborate with manufacturers, brand owners, non-governmental organizations, local & national governments to create sustainable consumption & production towards a better, greener earth.

WHY BIODEGRADABLE SOLUTIONS?
3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) is good and we actively support it, however it is not enough because it does not deal with Plastic’s end-of-life.  

We need the 4th R: Return to Earth, to really return plastic naturally back to earth and holistically close the life cycle loop.


WE ARE HONORED TO BE PART OF THESE AMAZING MOVEMENTS, TOGETHER CHANGING THE WORLD TO BE A BETTER PLACE

PT. Harapan Interaksi Swadaya (Greenhope)

PT Ocean Asia Industry is an integrated Textile Manufacturer who specializes in Knitting, Dyeing, Brushing, Printing and Finishing. With the brand new set up factory in Indonesia, located at Serang - Banten Province, PT. Ocean Asia Industry can produce with monthly dyeing capacity of 1.6 million lbs and offers customers a fast transit time to nearby countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and other regional countries.
 
Their mission is to be the preferred supplier of Weft Knitted Fabric in the region, and to have a highly motivated, effective and efficient workforce to ensure that they surpass all customer expectations with the best value & service; thereby providing optimum return to their society and the environment. 

PT. Ocean Asia Industry

Nusantara is a joint venture between Indorama Ventures and Hollit International, companies with a penchant for perfection and industry leadership. We choose to be at the vanguard of the textile industry's inevitable move into sustainability and created a range of certified consumer recycled PET-based fabrics with high functionality and fashion credentials.


Nusantara Fabrics

The Covid-19 outbreak has led to a health and economic crisis, which is putting employees at risk of infection at the workplace. As a means to protect workers from infection this has initiated global use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). This in turn has resulted in an increasing amount of international waste directly attributed by disposable, single-use PPE. With strategic partnerships and funding by the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ), and The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), a collaborative project was created to eliminate this issue by creating a more sustainable alternative; a fully-biodegradable medical and recyclable mask.

In the framework of the develoPPP.de project: ‘COVID-19 Response Project: Improving the Sustainability of Personal Protective Equipment at Safe Workplaces in the Textile Industry’