Our main areas of interest and expertise in the textile and clothing industry are:
- Reducing environmental and social impacts across the entire lifecycle of textiles (apparel and non-apparel items)
- End-of-life management of textile and clothing waste and the market opportunities for use in new products
- Strategies for encouraging and promoting sustainable consumption and production, particularly clothing.
We work in partnership with academic institutions, charitable organisations, designers, retailers and Government departments to provide research and consultancy solutions to textiles related projects.
For example, our recent project for Defra reports up-to-date, comprehensive and robust data on the quality and quantity of clothing and textile waste in the UK. In the report, we present and evaluate strategies for environmentally sound end-of-life (EOL) management of clothing and textiles waste generated in the UK, in particular increasing reuse and recycling rates, and specifically addressing the role of a variety of stakeholders in any interventions. EOL options assessed include up, down and closed-loop recycling, reuse, repair and refurbishment, energy from waste and composting. For full details, click here.
Our Defra funded study, entitled 'Recycling of low grade clothing waste', integrated an economic and market analysis of the UK textile recycling industry with a technical study aimed at developing new markets for recycled grades of clothing.
Our summary document, 'Clothing Take-Back for Recycling and Reuse: A Japanese Insight', provides a snapshot of three Japanese clothing take-back schemes which enable recycling and reuse of end-of-life clothing. |
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Download our report:-
 Maximising the Reuse and Recycling of UK Clothing and Textiles, for Defra 2009
(344kB)
'Recycling of low grade clothing waste' (2.4MB)
Projects
'Clothing Take-Back for Recycling and Reuse: A Japanese Insight' (912kB)
'The Sustainable Corporate Uniform' (72kB)
'Recycling and Reuse of Clothing: Issues, Interventions and Markets' (ERSCP, June 2007) (912kB)
Press Articles
'Worn out clothes can reclaim profits' (Ecotextile News, Mar 2007) (772kB)
'Changing attitudes' (Company Clothing, Jun 2006) (196kB)
'Clothing after wear' (Company Clothing, Oct 2005) (148kB)
'Making the Difference – Textile Recycling Today… Innovation for Tomorrow' (Paper by Garth Ward, SATCoL presented at CIWM Conference, June 2007) (388kB)
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 Salvation Army Trading Company
Nonwovens Innovation and Research Institute
Defra Sustainable Consumption and Production
Ecotextile News
Company Clothing
The Sustainable Manufacturing Group at Cambridge University
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