
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
Ecodesign position paper: Textiles and footwear
In a position paper from the Change and Wasted Textile projects, authors Kate Fletcher, Irene Maldini, Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Jens Måge and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson have addressed the background document from EU’s Joint Research Centre on…
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Sufficiency on the agenda
Sufficiency advocates from different sectors came together on May 4th at the Sufficiency Summit. Co-organised by Sciences Po (France) and University of South Australia, and chaired by Dr. Yamina Saheb and Professor David Ness, the Summit brought together…
A full PLATE with a 7-course SIFO menu
Holding on or letting go? Why don’t consumers complain more? Why do we hang on to stuff that is flawed? How to make fast fashion out of fashion and actually degrow the textile sector? All these questions will…
Events you can take part in
Presentation of preliminary findings from the Wasted Textiles PhD project
March 14th, 2023, 10 am to 12 noon. Athene 1 (auditorium), Pilestredet 46, OsloMet.
IWTO Wool Roundtable
Thursday 1. December, 14.00-15.15, NM Hotel Nuremberg, Germany
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