Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector

This book provides a wide landscape for recycling and product lifetime management in the textile and fashion sector. Through this approach, the book attempts to deepen the understanding of the sustainability transformation, which is currently desperately needed but also already happening in the design, manufacture, consumption and recycling of textiles and garments. The textile and garment recycling and redefining product lifetimes of this transformation are at the core of the new understanding of sustainability. An accessible and compelling read, Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector will appeal to students, scholars, professionals, policy makers and industry practitioners.

Textiles and Garment Lifetimes. DESIGN. Designing for (Extended) Product and Material Lifetimes. Fashion Designers Leading the Way to Extend Textile Lifetimes in Public-private Enterprises. I Like It because It’s been Worn Before: The Sensory Longevity of Worn Clothing. USE. European Circular Economy Perspectives on Fashion and Textile Consumer Behaviour. The Impact of Modes of Acquisition on Clothing Lifetimes. RECYCLING. Waste Not, Want Not: Re-routing Garment and Textile Waste Streams to Create Circular Fashion Design Eco-systems in Bangladesh and Beyond. Sorting and Composition Analyses of Discarded Textiles. Textile Recycling Technologies. DATA AND TECHNOLOGY. Data in Textile Circulation. Policy Paired with Technology.

Dr. Kirsi Niinimäki is Associate Professor in Design, especially in Fashion Research in the Department of Design at Aalto University, Finland. Dr. Niinimäki approaches the subject of sustainability from a variety of perspectives and her scientific results form a cohesive collection of new knowledge in the sustainable fashion field. Her research group – Fashion/Textile Futures – at Aalto University is involved in several significant research projects that integrate the closed loop, bio-economy and circular economy approaches into fashion and textile systems and expand the understanding of strategic sustainable design.