Quantifying Circularity: co-developing design guidelines with textile recyclers, brands and impact assessment

为了解决纺织品和服装生产对气候变化的重大影响，与行业、学术界和提供解决方案的利益相关者合作，为纺织和服装行业开发循环解决方案势在必行。然而，光纤到光纤恢复领域的快速创新对相关行业来说是一个挑战。这是真正有效的循环设计，有许多高度复杂的决策阶段，每个服装品牌和零售商都是不同的和特定的。CTF与UAL FTTI的合作将通过创新的研究和合作设计方法，为服装品牌带来充分考虑的纺织品循环，这将为纤维对纤维回收商可以回收的服装设计提供信息。车间流程将从服装和制服品牌及其面临的挑战中学习，在生产和制造的每个环节都有复杂的全球供应链，并在英国领先的回收慈善机构WRAP - Textiles 2030\的支持下建立设计和生产解决方案。一个关键目标将是确定选择循环设计方法的环境和经济效益，以帮助工业界证明在长期改变当前做法方面的必要投资是合理的。UAL FTTI及其合作伙伴高等教育机构汇集了服装和材料设计，生产，商业和消费者实践的各个方面，从材料工程到人类学。以专业的设计方法为基础，这种跨学科的研究和开发专业知识与WRAP和纺织品2030足迹工具提供的更广泛的行业专业知识相联系，将实现设计和生产方法的重大变化，超出了项目的范围和时间。

In order to address the significant impact of textiles and apparel production on climate change, the development of circular solutions with and for the textile and apparel industry, in collaboration with industry, academics, and solution providing stakeholders is imperative.The fast pace of innovation in the fibre-to-fibre recovery space is, however, a challenge for related industries. As is effective circular-design in real terms, with numerous highly complex decision-making stages that are different and specific to each apparel brand and retailer.CTF in partnership with UAL FTTI will bring fully considered textile circularity to apparel brands through an innovative approach to research and collaborative design, that will inform the design of clothing that fibre-to-fibre recyclers can recycle.Workshop processes will learn from apparel and uniform brands and the challenges they face, with complex global supply chains at every point of production and manufacture, and establish design and production solutions, supported by the UK's leading recycling charity, WRAP -- Textiles 2030\. A key aim will be to identify the environmental and economic benefits of choosing circular design methods, to help industry justify the necessary investment in changing current practices for the longer term.UAL FTTI and partner HEIs convene all aspects of apparel and materials design, production, business and consumer practices, spanning materials engineering to anthropology. Foregrounded by specialist design methods, this transdisciplinary research and development expertise linked to wider industry expertise provided by WRAP and the Textiles 2030 Footprint Tool, will achieve significant change in design, and production methods, beyond the scope and timeline of the project.