Used but not used up – what do we know about textile waste?
Recording and presentations are now available from the hybrid event presenting state of knowledge on textile waste streams.
The Plastic Elephant tramples into the international conference room
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
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 gets “eaten up” and what doesn’t.
Regulating Fast Fashion out of Fashion
Authors: Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Kerli Kant Hvass Abstract Among sustainable fashion and textile themes, product durability has recently come into focus within EU policy making. The dominant understanding is that increased textile lifespan will… Regulating Fast Fashion out of Fashion
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… The plastic elephant in the room: Who dares to talk about it?
Garbage talk: Easily outdated, but difficult to date
Text by Tone Skårdal Tobiasson The results from the Wasted Textiles pilot study, executed by four Master-students Camilla Sunde (UiO), Eva Hovda (NTNU), Siri Vestengen (NTNU) and Saeid Sheikhi (Høyskolen Kristiania) has now been published.… Garbage talk: Easily outdated, but difficult to date
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.
THE PLASTIC ELEPHANT: Overproduction and synthetic fibres in sustainable textile strategies
Authors: Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg, Anna Schytte Sigaard, Tone Skårdal Tobiasson andLea Gleisberg Summary In this report, we examine national, international and corporate strategies for sustainable textiles to understand if and how they… THE PLASTIC ELEPHANT: Overproduction and synthetic fibres in sustainable textile strategies
Ecodesign position paper: Textiles and footwear
In a position paper from the Change and Wasted Textiles 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… Ecodesign position paper: Textiles and footwear
Microplastics or microfibers: Does anyone really get what this is about?
OPINION: What we do know, is that all synthetic clothing and materials, sooner or later, will become microplastics, a «time-delayed» pollution bomb. And thus, they will ultimately become a problem for seabirds, and us. A… Microplastics or microfibers: Does anyone really get what this is about?