Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture, University of Brighton, UK In 2019, I shadowed an English house clearance company who clear unwanted goods from homes to observe what happens to clothes at the…
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Hybrid seminar Thursday November 9th, 2023, 2:30-4:00 PM
The Lasting project’s end seminar discussed if durability and lifespan is relevant for all product groups, or fails to address the actual pressing issues for some, such as textiles.
Recording and presentations are now available from the hybrid event presenting state of knowledge on textile waste streams.
The ethical issues are often discussed separate from environmental issues, it is high time they are discussed in the same room. Therefore, a huge thanks to EcoAge who arranged an important roundtable, and in the…
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
(…) 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…
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…
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…
The Wasted Textiles team have had many meetings with policy-makers, politicians, NGOs, textile industry representatives and other interested parties regarding our Targeted Producer Responsibility proposal. We have collected questions we have been asked and here…
This week saw the publication of a critical background paper on concerns surrounding the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules for Apparel and Footwear from a consortium representing the collaborative international research project Wasted Textiles at Consumption Research Norway SIFO at Oslo…