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They also account for affecting human health as only a very small number of the chemicals that are in use have gone through screening for human health. One of the sustainable approaches for pretreatment and finishing processes is plasma, an ionized gas form. When applied to a material, it activates the surface, removes impurities, and deposits a coating with no application of water and effluents and less use of chemicals and energy. Ultrasonic treatment is another sustainable way of removing impurities, dyeing, and finishing a textile. This process significantly reduces the amount of water, dye, and chemicals. Sasmira Institute of Man-Made Textiles obtained a patent for waterless dyeing technology called supercritical CO2, which results in the reduced use of chemicals and eliminates the use of water. 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Defining the alternative uses for the textile at the design stage is a crucial aspect of this process. Mass customization is a widely known innovation in India in the area of cut-make-trim. eShakti, a mass customization retailer, provides women with the option of customizing their clothes according to their tastes and needs. Automation and optimized yarn and fabric construction are a few other sustainable methods in this operation, which are finding their way through research and application.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Retail and Use\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The environmental impacts of retail and use are not tangible. They can be understood by measuring the impacts when the clothes are reused, recycled, and remanufactured. Implementing circular business models enables this scenario. CAIF has proposed three categories of circular businesses. \u003Cem>Re-commerce platforms \u003C/em>allow consumers to buy used garments of the highest quality from a brand, licensed platform, or another consumer. \u003Cem>Rework \u003C/em>makes contemporary designs using the abundance of stock by tweaking, deconstructing, and resewing clothing. \u003Cem>Rental \u003C/em>platforms provide consumers an option to rent garments for occasions or monthly, with a wide range of choices for customers and simultaneously extend the clothes' life.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>End-of-use\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This is one of the major steps of the process as it plays a critical role in closing the loop. The initial player in this process is the consumer. The awareness programs and incentives would help to bring the used materials into the loop, preventing them from ending up in landfills. The effective recycling and remanufacturing processes would then make the used clothes turn into new materials. Usha Yarns, a Chandigarh-based recycling service in India, makes recycled yarn made out of pre-consumer cotton waste and post-consumer polyester waste. Research on innovative solutions in sorting and mechanical and chemical recycling is widely taking place in the country.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>These innovative solutions should be accompanied by effective supply chain management to mainstream the circular economy. 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In addition, the properties of the panels are very similar to those of other non-recycled products on the market, which makes them a profitable and competent product.\u003C/p>\u003Cp> \u003C/p>\u003Cp>-The panels can be recycled again once they reach the end of their life cycle.\u003C/p>\u003Cp> \u003C/p>\u003Cp>- EcoFibra is currently close to processing eight tons per day (on average), and they project that they will receive about 150 tons of textile waste per month at their second plant located in Santiago de Chile, Chile.\u003C/p>\u003Cp> \u003C/p>\u003Cp>-The company also participates in social projects and works in collaboration with Chilean companies to recycle their uniforms and generate panels for homes in vulnerable communities.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The Atacama Desert is one of the largest landfills in Latin America. Every year, around 59,000 tons of used clothing are imported into Chile from other countries in order to be resold in the local market. However, of this volume, it is estimated that around 40,000 tons are not sold and are disposed of in clandestine landfills. It is estimated that more than 300 hectares of the Atacama Desert are covered with textile waste, which leads to multiple problems. The environmental impact of this illegal landfill is associated with GHG emissions, chemical leaching, and the release of microfibers into the environment. One of the most worrying problems for the region is the uncontrolled incineration of textiles, which, according to Edgard Ortega, in charge of the environmental office of the municipality where the landfill is located, generates at least \"an annual fire of large proportions that lasts between 2 and 10 days”.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In order to contribute to a solution to the growing volume of textile waste that is currently discarded in the Atacama Desert, in Chile, the company Ecofibra transforms daily tons of post-consumer garments into thermal and acoustic insulation panels, which can also be recycled once they reach the end of their life cycle.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>To prevent textile waste from reaching landfills, Ecofibra uses discarded post-consumer garments to transform them into insulation for housing construction. To manufacture the product, first of all, the garments are classified by type of material, and zippers, buttons, and other non-textile trims are eliminated. 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According to The New Denim Project, for every kilogram of waste used, up to 20,000 liters of water are saved and for every ton of textile that is recycled, 20 tons of CO2 are prevented from entering the atmosphere, greatly minimizing the consumption of new virgin raw materials.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>A quarter of the chemicals produced in the world are used in textiles. The unsafe use of agrochemicals has serious impacts on the health of farm workers and on the ecosystems that receive excessive doses of runoff from the farms. Textile production is recognized as discharging large volumes of water containing hazardous chemicals into the environment. Around 20% of industrial water pollution worldwide is attributable to the dyeing and treatment of textiles.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The New Denim Project is the newest and most innovative line of products from Iris Textiles, a third-generation family-owned textile manufacturer and wholesaler operating in Guatemala since 1956. The New Denim Project creates 100% sustainable yarns, fabrics, and products created from pre-consumer denim waste. These scraps are deconstructed back into fiber, spun into new threads, and then woven.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The New Denim Project has a chemical and dye-free production process and uses a minimum of water and energy. They do not add synthetic fibers (such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, etc.) and are committed to creating 100% natural and compostable products. The primary source of its raw material comes from the cutting tables of denim factories. They collect that waste, grind it into a fiber, and re-spin it into a wide variety of yarns. The cottonseed and cotton fibers left over from the upcycling process are passed on to the coffee growers. 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However, designing for the next generation also means keeping up with the times and foreseeing the needs of humanity.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Despite the fact that these wearables have established a new narrative for childrenswear, the use cases do not stop there. Thanks to the iterative beta testing processes, new opportunities are emerging organically towards other product lines such as maternity wear, reusable masks, and different types of everyday bags.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>-On average, parents use 280 pieces of children’s clothing in the first 2 years after their child is born, most of which are only worn for about two or three months. As a result, a vast amount of clothing ends up in landfills, losing value and creating adverse environmental impacts.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- Childrenwear today fails to recognise the dynamic and rapidly changing bodies of the earth’s little humans. Children grow seven sizes in their first two years, which for many parents represents an average of 2,000 euros spent on clothing before their kids reach three years of age.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- The contribution of children's wear to textile waste is still overlooked by both parents and industry decision-makers. While the sector represents only 12% of the overall market share, it constitutes a considerable portion of the 12 billion kg of textiles entering landfills each year.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- The carbon footprint resulting from producing a children’s jacket is roughly the same as producing an adult jacket (10 kg CO2), which gives us an indication of the need to rethink clothing standards.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Petit Pli is a wearable technology company that proposes a new approach to garment design while addressing problems in the textile industry focused on the macro and micro needs of humanity.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The London-based startup was founded in 2017 by trained aeronautical engineer Ryan Mario Yasin. During his studies, he experienced how his young niece and nephew’s speedy growth translated into a huge amount of garment waste, a signal that brought him an opportunity to enroll in a journey of discovery towards a sustainable transformation project based on a continuous size adjustment technology.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The concept of Petit Pli is built upon using materials sustainably. It reduces waste by combining human-centered design methodologies with aerospace engineering techniques to create innovative garments that grow as the wearer ages. Ryan Mario Yasin, inspired by satellite folding structures and origami, worked together with his interdisciplinary team to develop a structure that expands bi-directionally to fit kids between 9 months and 4 years of age. Made from a mono-fiber polyester structure, the collection features ultra-lightweight, rainproof outerwear garments which are perfectly adapted to children’s freedom of movement.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Petit Pli is an agile force of interdisciplinary design engineers, fashion designers, neuroscientists, and sociologists; a wearable technology company that does not fit anymore into the current parameters of today’s fashion labels.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Petit Pli has reframed the value of childrenswear with a new approach to garment design. Inspired by aerospace engineering, they have created a revolutionary pleating system that covers the phases of fast-growing children while encouraging the adoption of slow consumption behaviors.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>They offer versatile mon-fiber outerwear garments produced from recycled PET bottles that can grow up to 7 sizes and get recycled at the end of their use.\u003C/p>",[533,535,537,539,541],{"name":534,"type":276,"value":534},"https://petitpli.com",{"name":536,"type":276,"value":536},"https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/01/petit-pli-launches-collection-of-unisex-clothes-that-expand-to-fit-the-wearer/",{"name":538,"type":276,"value":538},"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191055/imperial-startup-wins-global-award-sustainable/",{"name":540,"type":276,"value":540},"https://www.forbes.com/sites/lucysherriff/2020/02/24/this-company-is-making-childrens-clothes-that-actually-grow-as-the-kid-does/?sh=2792253b3f70",{"name":542,"type":276,"value":542},"https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/retail-how-innovation-collaboration-accelerate-sustainability-fashion",{"id":194,"type":223,"cta":544,"cta_link":545,"created_at":546,"updated_at":547,"owner_id":380,"owner_relationship":227,"views":214,"owner":548,"image":549,"contributors":552,"article_locations":563,"article_industries":569,"view_count":214,"like_count":214,"collection_count":264,"content":578,"can_edit":278},"Learn more","https://circular.fashion/","2020-10-01T14:48:00.643Z","2023-04-13T16:00:48.507Z",{"id":380,"type":133,"owner_id":380,"about":15,"job_title":15,"url":15,"linkedin":15,"email":15,"staff_of_id":15,"organisation_id":15,"organisation":15},{"id":550,"link":551,"alt":15,"source":15,"created_at":546,"updated_at":547,"article_id":194,"image_profile_id":15,"banner_profile_id":15},"M91hLL4lADM=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778154852208-ols-JAkG.jpeg",[553,555,557,558,560,562],{"contributor_id":554},"G5dcGw",{"contributor_id":556},"HZoNZg",{"contributor_id":380},{"contributor_id":559},"l1PGfg",{"contributor_id":561},"R2m8Ng",{"contributor_id":132},[564],{"article_id":194,"location_id":565,"created_at":566,"updated_at":15,"location":567},"DEU","2026-05-07T11:47:01.685Z",{"id":565,"type":242,"name":568,"color":15,"parent_location_id":520,"created_at":245,"updated_at":15},"Germany",[570,572],{"article_id":194,"industry_id":259,"created_at":566,"updated_at":15,"industry":571},{"id":259,"name":261,"description":262,"sector":263},{"article_id":194,"industry_id":573,"created_at":566,"updated_at":15,"industry":574},"software_and_communications",{"id":573,"name":575,"description":576,"sector":577},"Software and Communications","Operating networks and software that enable the exchange and broadcasting of information, such as entertainment and internet software, television, cable, satellite or radio broadcasting systems, and cellular, wireless and/or fixed-line telecommunications services","professional_services",{"id":579,"score":214,"body":580,"status":277,"article_id":194,"created_at":546,"updated_at":547,"published_at":546},"tSZL",{"title":581,"outcome":582,"problem":583,"summary":584,"solution":585,"attachment":586},"circular.fashion - software and digital IDs to promote circularity","\u003Cp>After six years of research, pilots, and collaborative stakeholder dialogue, the company has developed circularity. ID® data standard. This open data initiative allows other companies to share and exchange the same information, also providing interoperability among different software solutions. This data standard is publicly available in a Github repository, presented in the link sections.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>An example of the outcomes of this solution is a pilot with Zalando, an online fashion platform, together with Fashion for Good and circular. fashion. In this project, a capsule collection was developed that allows consumers to learn more about the origin of products and how to extend the product’s life.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In addition, circular.fashion also offers workshops and training to help fashion brands incorporate circularity into their business models. According to the website of the startup, it has more than 70 brands, global players, and 500 designers trained and consulted since 2019.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>48 million tones of clothing are disposed worldwide every year. 73% are incinerated, 12% is reused, 12% is downcycled, and only less then 1% is turned into new clothes.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Circular. fashion is a sustainable change agency, creating software and system innovation for a circular economy in fashion and textiles. The company develops services and software for circular design and closed-loop recycling to enable a transparent flow of information between material suppliers, fashion brands, consumers, and recyclers.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Circular.fashion's mission is to promote circularity by overcoming three core challenges:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>● Brands need to design fashion for circularity.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>● Consumers need to be engaged in reusing and returning clothes for recycling.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>● Sorters and recyclers need to have access to material information to identify clothing for resale, reuse, and closed-loop recycling.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In this direction, in addition to consultation, circular.fashion promotes two solutions:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- The circular fashion system is an industry-connecting platform for all stakeholders to collaboratively realize a cradle-to-cradle-inspired circular economy for textiles. 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This contributes to our energy problem. If 2.3 billion Internet users each deleted 10 e-mails, this would represent 1.7 million GB of energy saved on archiving data. I achieved zero waste by recycling my own digital waste. The least people can do is help reduce digital waste by emptying their inboxes, right?\"\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>“Trash created by humans can be roughly divided into physical trash and digital trash. \"While physical waste directly affects the environment, in reality, digital waste also affects the environment by using the stored energy, which emits carbon,” said Lim Jaeho, Head of AI Human Company Division at LG AI Research, at WWD. According to LG, digital waste is “stagnant and unused data that contributes to our carbon footprint by using stored energy. In such a digitally accelerated era, digital waste is a viable threat to the environmental movement. Although often overlooked, the carbon emissions produced by an office worker’s annual emails are equal to the carbon emissions produced by a large vehicle traveling 200 miles. The energy costs of storing digital waste are a key driver of our overall carbon emission levels.\"\u003C/p>\u003Cp>On top of that, each year, 92 million tons of fabric are discarded globally as waste. That's equivalent to one truckload of clothing thrown away every second. Figures predict this number will surpass 130 million tons by 2030. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>After her successful debut at New York Fashion Week in February 2022, Tilda, the first ever AI artist, unveiled her first solo sustainably crafted clothing capsule collection - 'Digital Upcycling Project'. The collection expresses not only her values as an artist, but also her values as an environmental activist and contains 30 handmade garments created from discarded and repurposed materials, both physical and digital. Launched on World Environment Day, June 5th, 2022, exclusively in the Metaverse, the collection addresses issues of digital and physical waste, hoping to spread awareness of the actions people can take to improve their carbon footprint.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The goal of Tilda’s “Digital Upcycling Project,\" LG says, is to shed light not only on the issue of real waste ending up in real landfills but also on the impacts of digital carbon footprints.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>With the Digital Upcycling project, Tilda recycles this “unnecessary” waste and transforms it into clothes to be reused as fashion. She basically finds a way to reduce physical and digital waste through her own unique, creative, and eco-friendly method. The physical garments in Tilda’s collection are made entirely from second-hand denim and Japanese “Boro” fabrics (from the Japanese word \u003Cem>boroboro\u003C/em>, i.e. ragged or mended), an age-old practice of reinforcing a textile using scraps of fabric that would have been discarded. It has a visual similarity to patchwork, although less intentionally patterned and therefore with its own somewhat freestyle beauty.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Then, retrieving discarded images from a fashion week collection that Tilda had created for a collaboration with designer Greedilous Younhee Park that ultimately wasn’t used for the collection, designer AI reinterpreted them into new designs, new colors, patterns, and items to create digital upcycled designs. Although Tilda created over 4,000 images for Greedilous, only 13 were used in the final collection—something human fashion designers can relate to when considering the number of sketches and swatches created for one collection versus what ends up hitting the runway.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>“While it is up to manufacturers to slow down the production process that physically creates so much excess waste, we can all explore creative and unconventional ways to recycle our goods beyond their method and period of use, instead of automatically throwing them away,\" she said in a statement.\u003C/p>",[619,621,623,625],{"name":620,"type":276,"value":620},"https://www.designsbyjanie.com/ai-designer-tilda-drops-first-digital-upcycling-collection-in-metaverse-wwd/",{"name":622,"type":276,"value":622},"https://dupbytilda.com/hall1.html",{"name":624,"type":276,"value":624},"https://www.lgresearch.ai/about/vision",{"name":626,"type":276,"value":626},"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-the-digital-upcycling-project-by-tilda-the-first-ai-artist-by-lg-ai-research-301561017.html",{"id":192,"type":223,"cta":15,"cta_link":15,"created_at":628,"updated_at":629,"owner_id":630,"owner_relationship":227,"views":214,"owner":631,"image":632,"contributors":635,"article_locations":638,"article_industries":643,"view_count":214,"like_count":214,"collection_count":264,"content":648,"can_edit":278},"2022-08-22T13:37:01.005Z","2023-04-06T15:30:05.290Z","8exGxA",{"id":630,"type":133,"owner_id":630,"about":15,"job_title":15,"url":15,"linkedin":15,"email":15,"staff_of_id":15,"organisation_id":15,"organisation":15},{"id":633,"link":634,"alt":15,"source":15,"created_at":628,"updated_at":629,"article_id":192,"image_profile_id":15,"banner_profile_id":15},"-9mPveu1YiM=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778153936414-yoR-Cm-J.jpeg",[636,637],{"contributor_id":630},{"contributor_id":132},[639],{"article_id":192,"location_id":640,"created_at":293,"updated_at":15,"location":641},"2950159",{"id":640,"type":249,"name":642,"color":15,"parent_location_id":565,"created_at":245,"updated_at":15},"Berlin",[644,646],{"article_id":192,"industry_id":259,"created_at":293,"updated_at":15,"industry":645},{"id":259,"name":261,"description":262,"sector":263},{"article_id":192,"industry_id":397,"created_at":293,"updated_at":15,"industry":647},{"id":397,"name":399,"description":400,"sector":322},{"id":649,"score":214,"body":650,"status":277,"article_id":192,"created_at":628,"updated_at":629,"published_at":628},"v4dn",{"title":651,"outcome":652,"problem":653,"summary":654,"solution":655,"attachment":656},"Recycled textiles as a plastic alternative.","\u003Cp>Through the creation of hard plastic out of textile waste, the risk of creating more microplastics by conventionally downcycling the textiles is reduced. Also, the new material can reenter the cycle over and over again without losing quality. Companies can develop their own branded products out of their own textile waste, products like phone cases, glasses, or even furniture.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Textile waste is a growing concern, which is fueled by the trend of fast fashion. Most textiles end up in landfill or incineration after the first use. Most exciting recycling technologies struggle to recycle textiles with a composition of different materials. Mono-materials are easier to recycle, but they are currently rare on the market. Through the recycling of PET bottles, lots of microplastics are created, which are polluting ecosystems. Another problem is the status quo of plastic production. Most plastics are currently made out of petroleum, which is not sustainable at all.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Kleiderly has invented a new recycling process that enables the recycling of textiles, made out of different materials, into a durable multi-purpose material that has the same characteristics as virgin plastic.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Kleiderly can recycle textiles containing cotton, polyester, viscose, and elastane. More materials are about to be tested in their further R&D. In the recycling process, they mix the shredded textile waste with a biodegradable glue made from sugar cane. The plastic alternative created out of textile waste has the same characteristics as virgin plastic, therefore it can be used for multiple purposes like eyewear or accessories.\u003C/p>",[657,659],{"name":658,"type":276,"value":658},"https://kleiderly.com",{"name":660,"type":276,"value":660},"https://www.instagram.com/kleiderlyberlin/?__coig_restricted=1",[]]