Identifying the needs for a circular workwear textile management – A material flow analysis of workwear textile waste within Swiss Companies

Malinverno, Nadia; Schmutz, Mélanie; Nowack, Bernd; Som, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106728

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“…A máquina utilizada possui detectores de metais, e picota peças inteiras de vestuário. O material picotado é processado por uma desfibradeira, para transformar os retalhos de confecção e o vestuário pós-consumo em mantas de fibras recicladas, que serão enviadas à fiação e utilizadas na fabricação de um novo produto (Malinverno et al, 2023;Ribul et al, 2021).…”

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Paro Rodrigues de Souza,

Barros Marins Bamonte

2024

Poéticas Têxteis: Tradição, Preservação E Ressignificação Dos Saberes

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As origens dos teares

Paro Rodrigues de Souza,

Barros Marins Bamonte

2024

Poéticas Têxteis: Tradição, Preservação E Ressignificação Dos Saberes

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“…This growth reflects the importance of company branding generally in the workplace, especially in manufacturing and corporate sectors as well as the increase in workplace accidents and fatalities globally that drives up the demand for protective workwear and footwear (ibid.). Research and government reports claim that the workwear industry also faces overconsumption and fast disposal challenges similar to the fashion industry (Malinverno et al, 2023). However, generally, the workwear industry, as opposed to the fashion industry, shows a relatively higher potential for reuse and recycling because workwear is often uniform, available in large quantities and of high quality, which makes it easy to develop economies of scale around CBMs (Malinverno et al, 2023).…”

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Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy

Engzell,

Kambanou

2024

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article analyses the organisational and individual drivers and barriers to the implementation of circular business models (CBM) by incumbents and start-ups in the workwear industry. It is based on a qualitative study of 15 organisations in the Swedish workwear industry. Most incumbents are found to have either long-life models with hybrid elements, such as repair, or access models, while circular start-ups have a larger variety of CBMs, although the most common is gap exploiter. Internal organisational barriers mostly differ between the two groups; however, external organisational barriers are more significant and common, such as the low price of new workwear, a lack of demand and a lack of supporting policies, for example, public procurement. Several organisational drivers are identified, such as opportunities to deliver customer value, textile and digital innovations and environmental concerns. Drivers and barriers are influenced by both type of CBM and type of company. Individual drivers and barriers, which are often overlooked in literature, are found to be important to CBM implementation.

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“…In the post-consumption stage, most of the textile apparel is discarded as waste in landfills or incinerated. Thus, the functioning of the textile industry has often been criticized for its adverse environmental impact [60]. Currently, the concept of sustainable industrial practice and zero waste are gaining significant attention in society.…”

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Analysing the Barriers Involved in Recycling the Textile Waste in India Using Fuzzy DEMATEL

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Post-consumer wastes from the textile industry are generally landfilled or incinerated. The dumping of large amounts of textile waste has resulted in severe environmental problems. Advancements in technologies have called for textile recycling; however, the level of embracement made by the textile industry towards textile recycling is hampered by myriad factors. The scope of this study lies in identifying and analyzing multiple barriers to implementing textile recycling in India, encompassing all subsets of sustainability, i.e., social, economic, and environmental. The barriers are then evaluated using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach to identify the significant barriers. A trapezoidal fuzzy-DEMATEL methodology was executed to not only find the most influential barriers but also to find the cause-effect nature between every barrier. The outcome of the study indicates a lack of successful recycling business models, poor demand for recycled textiles goods, recycled products may not replace new products, lack of support for waste management in the industry, and absence of tax relief and rewarding policies as the top five barriers to textile waste recycling. This insight could help influence the decision of future policymakers in the field. Another aspect of the issue of pollution in the textile industry is the recent trend of fast fashion and the enormous amount of waste produced by overconsumption. The Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) 12 which is to ensure responsible production and consumption plays a key role in this sector.

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Identifying the needs for a circular workwear textile management – A material flow analysis of workwear textile waste within Swiss Companies

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

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Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy

Analysing the Barriers Involved in Recycling the Textile Waste in India Using Fuzzy DEMATEL

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