Our proposal for EPR for clothing and textiles
How to make sure Extended Producer Responsibility becomes a silver bullet
This is a letter sent to commissioners and members of the European Commission in October 2022, from 4 participants in the Wasted Textiles project that explains their suggestions for a way of developing an EPR scheme that addresses volumes. They suggest an Eco-modulation based on volumes in the waste and therefore include the growing online…
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Books
Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion
Wool as a Fabric for Change
Ingun Grimstad Klepp og Tone Skårdal Tobiasson (eds.), 2022
Inclusive Consumptions
Immigrants’ Access to and Use of Public and Private Goods and Services
Anita Borch , Ivan Harsløf , Ingun Grimstad Klepp & Kirsi Laitala (eds.), 2019
Publications
News
EU wants data on textile waste, and we have the answer
(…) we have found that food offers us two good guiding principles. The first one is to eat up what is on your plate. The second is waste audits as a means to gain meaningful knowledge on what…
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The plastic elephant in the room: Who dares to talk about it?
In the Consumption Research Norway SIFO report The plastic elephant: Overproduction and synthetic fibers in sustainable textile strategies we examine national, international and corporate strategies for sustainable textiles to understand whether, and if so, how they include the…
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Productive project publishes again
The scientific article Sound Absorption of Tufted Carpets Produced from Coarse Wool of Mountain Sheep has been published in Journal of Natural Fibers. The article is co-authored by Jan Broda, Katarzyna Kobiela-Mendrek, Marcin Bączek, Monika Rom and Ingvild…
Events you can take part in
USED BUT NOT USED UP
Webinar Monday 23rd of October 2023 08:30-11:00
REdu result seminar
Friday the 11th of August 2023, 09:00-10:00 CET, Oslo/Zoom, the results from the REdu project will be presented.
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