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Greening the UK’s clothing sector: the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP)

The challengeClothing has a significant environmental and social footprint across its supply chain and is exacerbated by high consumption levels. In the UK alone about 2 million tonnes (value ...

Designing clothes for the fashion sector using sustainable and recycled materials and promoting sustainable consumption

The challengeTextiles constitute a major type of waste going to landfill in European countries. Retailers could reduce this waste stream by designing and selling clothes made from recycled ...

Creation of useful products from waste textile materials in collaboration with corporations and textile designers

The challengeOn average, consumers in the United Kingdom send 30 kg of clothing waste per capita to landfill each year. The total clothing waste stream amounts to around 2 million tonnes per year in ...

Global Alliance of Waste Pickers

The challengeDue to increasing global urbanisation, millions of people make a living collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials considered waste. In many countries, waste pickers ...

Providing consumers with an incentive for collecting and recycling old clothes

The challenge Annually 1 billion clothing items are sent to landfill in the United Kingdom. Current landfill capacities are limited to handle waste in such quantities and there is a need to find ways ...

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 641974.

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