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171
Level: 171
Header Text: The concept
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Body Text: <p>The circulare economy (also known as cradle-to-cradle (C2C) or closed loop), is a concept that embraces a biomimetic philosophy, where all waste is seen as nutrients for new products. </p> <p>This concept is becoming reality across many industries and also looks to bridge industries in a collaborative working style to embrace total waste utilisation.</p> <p>In the UK, work is being driven through WRAP and the Ellen MacArthur foundation. The Ellen MacArthur roadmap set outs their 'pioneering' stage within the next 5 years and a subsequent 'mainstreaming' phase to take them to 2025.</p>
Level: 171
Header Text: The concept
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Body Text: <p>The circulare economy (also known as cradle-to-cradle (C2C) or closed loop), is a concept that embraces a biomimetic philosophy, where all waste is seen as nutrients for new products. </p> <p>This concept is becoming reality across many industries and also looks to bridge industries in a collaborative working style to embrace total waste utilisation.</p> <p>In the UK, work is being driven through WRAP and the Ellen MacArthur foundation. The Ellen MacArthur roadmap set outs their 'pioneering' stage within the next 5 years and a subsequent 'mainstreaming' phase to take them to 2025.</p>
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172
Level: 172
Header Text: Case study
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Body Text: <p>Puma InCycle, is a smart process created by the C2C Product Innovation Institute. It sees working in a continuous cycle as a good thing, returning waste back to nutrients for new product.</p> <p>The Puma InCycle range, is the apparel industries first certified C2C collection of recyclable and degradable clothing, accessories and footwear.</p> <p>The consumer has an integral part to play within the process, returning used product back to the Puma bring back bins within store. Once collected the process of returning these products back through a circular process begins. </p>
Level: 172
Header Text: Case study
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Body Text: <p>Puma InCycle, is a smart process created by the C2C Product Innovation Institute. It sees working in a continuous cycle as a good thing, returning waste back to nutrients for new product.</p> <p>The Puma InCycle range, is the apparel industries first certified C2C collection of recyclable and degradable clothing, accessories and footwear.</p> <p>The consumer has an integral part to play within the process, returning used product back to the Puma bring back bins within store. Once collected the process of returning these products back through a circular process begins. </p>
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173
Level: 173
Header Text: The process
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Body Text: <p>Once Puma have received back unwanted consumer product, the whole InCycle range can be broken down in one of two processes:</p> <p><b>Biological cycle:</b><br> Products are sent to an industrial composter, where they decompose in a process that takes up to 6 months. </p> <p><b>Technical cycle:</b><br> Products are shredded and sorted into their basic raw materials. Valuable raw materials are then recycled back into new raw materials for continual use.</p> <p>Both of these processes keep landfill to a minimum and valuable resources can be used again and again. </p>
Level: 173
Header Text: The process
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Body Text: <p>Once Puma have received back unwanted consumer product, the whole InCycle range can be broken down in one of two processes:</p> <p><b>Biological cycle:</b><br> Products are sent to an industrial composter, where they decompose in a process that takes up to 6 months. </p> <p><b>Technical cycle:</b><br> Products are shredded and sorted into their basic raw materials. Valuable raw materials are then recycled back into new raw materials for continual use.</p> <p>Both of these processes keep landfill to a minimum and valuable resources can be used again and again. </p>
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174
Level: 174
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>The PUMA InCycle Basket shoe and cotton T-shirt are biodegradable and Cradle-to-Cradle Basic certified<sup>CM</sup> [1]. </p> <p>PUMA investigated the environmental performance of these products via a product-level Environmental Profit and Loss Account published in October 2012 [1]. Developed by PUMA with PPR HOME, Trucost and PwC, the study estimates cradle-to-grave impacts of products and values these in Euros. The aim is to enable comparison of the studied impacts: carbon, water, waste, air pollution and land use. </p> <p>In terms of the combined cost of carbon, water and waste, the study estimates a total reduction of 34% for the InCycle Basket shoe and 28% for the InCycle T-shirt, compared to their conventional counterparts. </p>
Level: 174
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>The PUMA InCycle Basket shoe and cotton T-shirt are biodegradable and Cradle-to-Cradle Basic certified<sup>CM</sup> [1]. </p> <p>PUMA investigated the environmental performance of these products via a product-level Environmental Profit and Loss Account published in October 2012 [1]. Developed by PUMA with PPR HOME, Trucost and PwC, the study estimates cradle-to-grave impacts of products and values these in Euros. The aim is to enable comparison of the studied impacts: carbon, water, waste, air pollution and land use. </p> <p>In terms of the combined cost of carbon, water and waste, the study estimates a total reduction of 34% for the InCycle Basket shoe and 28% for the InCycle T-shirt, compared to their conventional counterparts. </p>
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175
Level: 175
Header Text: Obsolete stock
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Body Text: <p>Excess and obsolete stock is a widespread concern in the clothing industry, as re-use solutions for branded redundant clothing are often limited. As part of a growing creative interest in recycling, designers have recently become involved in exploring solutions for the use of such items, although this should only be viewed as an interim solution, as the long-term goal should be to eliminate such stock.</p> <p>Creative collaborations with London College of Fashion, University College Falmouth and the University of Huddersfield, saw students recycle the surplus <a href="http://www.insidespeedo.com/our-products"> Speedo LZR Racer </a> suit to create new designs as part of a wider project into exploring opportunities for utilising excess stock. </p>
Level: 175
Header Text: Obsolete stock
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Body Text: <p>Excess and obsolete stock is a widespread concern in the clothing industry, as re-use solutions for branded redundant clothing are often limited. As part of a growing creative interest in recycling, designers have recently become involved in exploring solutions for the use of such items, although this should only be viewed as an interim solution, as the long-term goal should be to eliminate such stock.</p> <p>Creative collaborations with London College of Fashion, University College Falmouth and the University of Huddersfield, saw students recycle the surplus <a href="http://www.insidespeedo.com/our-products"> Speedo LZR Racer </a> suit to create new designs as part of a wider project into exploring opportunities for utilising excess stock. </p>
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176
Level: 176
Header Text: Surplus product
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Body Text: <p>Designers' abilities to re-imagine and re-design a wide range of surplus and redundant products and materials has led to a growing number of creative projects and unusual collaborations in the textile & clothing industry. </p> <p>Based on his previous fashion collections using re-appropriated military fabrics, Swiss brand Victorinox commissioned UK designer Christopher Raeburn to create the 8-item REMADE IN SWITZERLAND capsule collection, which utilised existing local military surplus garments and blankets to produce the highly unique, hand-numbered, limited edition pieces. </p>
Level: 176
Header Text: Surplus product
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Body Text: <p>Designers' abilities to re-imagine and re-design a wide range of surplus and redundant products and materials has led to a growing number of creative projects and unusual collaborations in the textile & clothing industry. </p> <p>Based on his previous fashion collections using re-appropriated military fabrics, Swiss brand Victorinox commissioned UK designer Christopher Raeburn to create the 8-item REMADE IN SWITZERLAND capsule collection, which utilised existing local military surplus garments and blankets to produce the highly unique, hand-numbered, limited edition pieces. </p>
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Level: 177
Header Text: Discarded textiles
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Body Text: <p>Discarded textiles, such as surplus and rejected stock and production off-cuts, are still problematic by-products of clothing production, while designers are beginning to successfully investigate solutions for the utilisation of these potential waste materials. </p> <p>Up-cycling pioneers Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci's <a href="http://www.reclaimtowear.com/">'Reclaim to Wear'</a> project was originally conceived as a mechanism to use up fabrics from designer collections and they have now joined forces with Topshop to create an up-cycled capsule collection made entirely from surplus materials or production off-cuts.</p>
Level: 177
Header Text: Discarded textiles
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Body Text: <p>Discarded textiles, such as surplus and rejected stock and production off-cuts, are still problematic by-products of clothing production, while designers are beginning to successfully investigate solutions for the utilisation of these potential waste materials. </p> <p>Up-cycling pioneers Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci's <a href="http://www.reclaimtowear.com/">'Reclaim to Wear'</a> project was originally conceived as a mechanism to use up fabrics from designer collections and they have now joined forces with Topshop to create an up-cycled capsule collection made entirely from surplus materials or production off-cuts.</p>
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178
Level: 178
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Esprit has demonstrated that the use of production off-cuts can lead to significant carbon and water savings. It has launched a collection of "R Certified" T-shirts and denim pieces manufactured from recycled off-cuts, and commissioned and independent life cycle assessment (LCA) to determine environmental performance.</p> <p>The LCA determined the cradle-to-gate life cycle of the Esprit T-shirt, which is produced from 35% recycled cotton and 65% recycled PET. The study found that its production uses 74% less water and produces 53% less greenhouse gases than a piece-dyed 100% virgin cotton fibre T-shirt [1].</p>
Level: 178
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Body Text: <p>Esprit has demonstrated that the use of production off-cuts can lead to significant carbon and water savings. It has launched a collection of "R Certified" T-shirts and denim pieces manufactured from recycled off-cuts, and commissioned and independent life cycle assessment (LCA) to determine environmental performance.</p> <p>The LCA determined the cradle-to-gate life cycle of the Esprit T-shirt, which is produced from 35% recycled cotton and 65% recycled PET. The study found that its production uses 74% less water and produces 53% less greenhouse gases than a piece-dyed 100% virgin cotton fibre T-shirt [1].</p>
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179
Level: 179
Header Text: Mono-material construction
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Body Text: <p>Mono-material construction is one of the key concepts to facilitate disassembly for reuse and recycling of materials at the end of a product's life. The development and use of new innovative materials such as sustainable thermoplastics could therefore play an important role in the future. </p> <p>Melissa shoes are made entirely from Melflex™, a thermoplastic described as recyclable, versatile, durable and environmentally friendly and the company prides itself on their particular attention to the life cycle of materials and their zero waste ethos, as any unwanted shoes or material surplus can be melted down into material for a new pair.</p>
Level: 179
Header Text: Mono-material construction
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Body Text: <p>Mono-material construction is one of the key concepts to facilitate disassembly for reuse and recycling of materials at the end of a product's life. The development and use of new innovative materials such as sustainable thermoplastics could therefore play an important role in the future. </p> <p>Melissa shoes are made entirely from Melflex™, a thermoplastic described as recyclable, versatile, durable and environmentally friendly and the company prides itself on their particular attention to the life cycle of materials and their zero waste ethos, as any unwanted shoes or material surplus can be melted down into material for a new pair.</p>
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180
Level: 180
Header Text: Homogeneous components
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Body Text: <p>One of the essential considerations of cradle-to-cradle design is the necessity to utilise homogeneous fabrics and components, in order to facilitate reuse and recycling without downgrading the materials and products. </p> <p>Many of the designers exploring this way of working highlight the challenges as sourcing suitable fabrics and components, such as zips, buttons and sewing threads. </p> <p>Puma's recyclable Track Jacket as part of the InCycle collection, is 98% made of recycled polyester, with the zip also made of recyclable polyester to enable the cradle-to-cradle recycling process, which sees the components of the jacket turned back into polyester granulate in order to serve as a secondary raw material for other products made of recycled polyester.</p>
Level: 180
Header Text: Homogeneous components
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Body Text: <p>One of the essential considerations of cradle-to-cradle design is the necessity to utilise homogeneous fabrics and components, in order to facilitate reuse and recycling without downgrading the materials and products. </p> <p>Many of the designers exploring this way of working highlight the challenges as sourcing suitable fabrics and components, such as zips, buttons and sewing threads. </p> <p>Puma's recyclable Track Jacket as part of the InCycle collection, is 98% made of recycled polyester, with the zip also made of recyclable polyester to enable the cradle-to-cradle recycling process, which sees the components of the jacket turned back into polyester granulate in order to serve as a secondary raw material for other products made of recycled polyester.</p>