1st Edition
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.
Prewords: Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector
Textiles and Garment Lifetimes
Kirsi Niinimäki
DESIGN
Designing for (Extended) Product and Material Lifetimes
Kirsi Niinimäki
Fashion Designers Leading the Way to Extend Textile Lifetimes in Public-private Enterprises
Ulla Raebuild and Vibeke Riisberg
I Like It because It’s been Worn Before: The Sensory Longevity of Worn Clothing
Mila Burcikova
USE
European Circular Economy Perspectives on Fashion and Textile Consumer Behaviour
Han, S.L.C., Blanco-Velo, J., Boiten, V.J. and Tyler, D.
The Impact of Modes of Acquisition on Clothing Lifetimes
Kirsi Laitala, Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Lisbeth Løvbak Berg
RECYCLING
Waste Not, Want Not: Re-routing Garment and Textile Waste Streams to Create Circular Fashion Design Eco-systems in Bangladesh and Beyond
Anne Peirson-Smith and Stella Claxton
Sorting and Composition Analyses of Discarded Textiles
Kirsti Cura and Mikko Mäkelä
Textile Recycling Technologies
Pirjo Heikkilä
DATA AND TECHNOLOGY
Data in Textile Circulation
Sheenam Jain, Susanna Horn and Kirsi Niinimäki
Policy Paired with Technology
Sajida Gordon
Biography
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.
