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Level: 41
Header Text: Design for waste management & reduction
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Body Text: Design for waste management & reduction creatively deals with issues such as excess and obsolete stock and surplus products and fabrics.
Level: 41
Header Text: Design for waste management & reduction
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Body Text: Design for waste management & reduction creatively deals with issues such as excess and obsolete stock and surplus products and fabrics.
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42
Level: 42
Header Text: Design for end-of-life
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Body Text: Design for end-of-life plans for a product’s life beyond the first life, enabling disassembly, recycling and remanufacture to create new products with the ultimate aim to eliminate waste all together.
Level: 42
Header Text: Design for end-of-life
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Body Text: Design for end-of-life plans for a product’s life beyond the first life, enabling disassembly, recycling and remanufacture to create new products with the ultimate aim to eliminate waste all together.
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43
Level: 43
Header Text: Physical durability
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Body Text: <p>Design for physical durability considers construction and strategic reinforcing in order to create products that can resist damage and wear.</p> <p><a href="http://www.levi.com/GB/en_GB/category/men/collections/levi-collections-commuter " target="_blank">Levi Strauss & Co.</a> pay particular attention to construction for durability, utilising reinforcement in critical areas, such as seat and pockets in their COMMUTER™ collection. </p> <p>WRAP has developed <a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sustainable-textiles/scap/extending-clothing-life/guides/sustainable-clothing-guide" target="_blank">guidance </a> offering practical tips for increasing the physical durability of casualwear, childrenswear, denim, knitwear, occasionwear, sportswear, tailoring, and underwear.
Level: 43
Header Text: Physical durability
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Body Text: <p>Design for physical durability considers construction and strategic reinforcing in order to create products that can resist damage and wear.</p> <p><a href="http://www.levi.com/GB/en_GB/category/men/collections/levi-collections-commuter " target="_blank">Levi Strauss & Co.</a> pay particular attention to construction for durability, utilising reinforcement in critical areas, such as seat and pockets in their COMMUTER™ collection. </p> <p>WRAP has developed <a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sustainable-textiles/scap/extending-clothing-life/guides/sustainable-clothing-guide" target="_blank">guidance </a> offering practical tips for increasing the physical durability of casualwear, childrenswear, denim, knitwear, occasionwear, sportswear, tailoring, and underwear.
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44
Level: 44
Header Text: Emotional durability
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Body Text: <p>In order for a product to last, in addition to physical durability, design also needs to consider the product's ability to stay relevant and desirable to the consumer. WRAP have produced the <a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sustainable-textiles/scap/extending-clothing-life/guides/sustainable-clothing-guide"> Sustainable Clothing Guide</a> to help with this. </p> <p>Until recently, bag company <a href="http://www.freitag.ch/about/production" target="_blank">Freitag</a> offered a 'design a bag' feature on their website, allowing customers to choose their own materials and design layout, thus creating a strong bond between the user and the product.</p>
Level: 44
Header Text: Emotional durability
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Body Text: <p>In order for a product to last, in addition to physical durability, design also needs to consider the product's ability to stay relevant and desirable to the consumer. WRAP have produced the <a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sustainable-textiles/scap/extending-clothing-life/guides/sustainable-clothing-guide"> Sustainable Clothing Guide</a> to help with this. </p> <p>Until recently, bag company <a href="http://www.freitag.ch/about/production" target="_blank">Freitag</a> offered a 'design a bag' feature on their website, allowing customers to choose their own materials and design layout, thus creating a strong bond between the user and the product.</p>
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45
Level: 45
Header Text: Co-creation
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Body Text: <p>Co-creation encourages individuality and creates an emotional connection between the user/ creator and the product. </p> <p>Interactive platforms such as Puma's 'Mongolian Barbecue' and <a href="http://www.nike.com/gb/en_gb/c/nikeid?cp=EUNS_KW_UK_1_Brand_Core_iD">Nike ID</a>, allow the consumer to design and order their footwear through a dedicated website.</p>
Level: 45
Header Text: Co-creation
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Body Text: <p>Co-creation encourages individuality and creates an emotional connection between the user/ creator and the product. </p> <p>Interactive platforms such as Puma's 'Mongolian Barbecue' and <a href="http://www.nike.com/gb/en_gb/c/nikeid?cp=EUNS_KW_UK_1_Brand_Core_iD">Nike ID</a>, allow the consumer to design and order their footwear through a dedicated website.</p>
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46
Level: 46
Header Text: Versatility
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Body Text: <p>Trans-seasonal and multi-activity design concepts, as well as classic styling and colours, can contribute towards achieving product versatility, thus increasing longevity. </p> <p><a href="https://nau.com/pages/about" target="_blank">Nau</a> describe their approach to designing for product longevity as styles and products that are considered, timeless, and able to move seamlessly through the day and seasons.</p>
Level: 46
Header Text: Versatility
Video Path: https://player.vimeo.com/video/47554875
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Body Text: <p>Trans-seasonal and multi-activity design concepts, as well as classic styling and colours, can contribute towards achieving product versatility, thus increasing longevity. </p> <p><a href="https://nau.com/pages/about" target="_blank">Nau</a> describe their approach to designing for product longevity as styles and products that are considered, timeless, and able to move seamlessly through the day and seasons.</p>
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Level: 47
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Research conducted for WRAP has shown that lifetime extension including through designing for durability, is the most significant action that can be taken reduce the carbon and waste footprints of UK clothing.</p> <p>The table to the left shows the estimated resource savings associated with using clothes for 10% and 33% longer [1].</p> <p>Recently published work by WRAP on longevity provides further statistics and guidance on how to increase the active life of clothing [2].</p>
Level: 47
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Research conducted for WRAP has shown that lifetime extension including through designing for durability, is the most significant action that can be taken reduce the carbon and waste footprints of UK clothing.</p> <p>The table to the left shows the estimated resource savings associated with using clothes for 10% and 33% longer [1].</p> <p>Recently published work by WRAP on longevity provides further statistics and guidance on how to increase the active life of clothing [2].</p>
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48
Level: 48
Header Text: Re-use & remodel
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Body Text: <p>Providing re-use and remodel options at the end of the garment’s first life can extend the garment’s use or enable the re-use of the materials to be redesigned and made into another product.</p> <p>Designer <a href="https://hollymcquillan.com/2010/07/18/synaptic-stimuli-beauty-mathmatics-patterns/" target="_blank">Holly McQuillan</a> works with a pattern technique called 'Hyperbolic Tessellation', which enables her to eliminate waste from garment production, while offering a remodelling service for the wearer as tastes and seasons change.</p>
Level: 48
Header Text: Re-use & remodel
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Body Text: <p>Providing re-use and remodel options at the end of the garment’s first life can extend the garment’s use or enable the re-use of the materials to be redesigned and made into another product.</p> <p>Designer <a href="https://hollymcquillan.com/2010/07/18/synaptic-stimuli-beauty-mathmatics-patterns/" target="_blank">Holly McQuillan</a> works with a pattern technique called 'Hyperbolic Tessellation', which enables her to eliminate waste from garment production, while offering a remodelling service for the wearer as tastes and seasons change.</p>
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Level: 49
Header Text: Disassembly strategy
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Body Text: <p>Considering the product's disassembly strategy at the design stage is essential to facilitate efficient disassembly in order to re-use, re-manufacture or recycle materials and components at the end of the product's first life.</p> <p>Dutch companies <a href="https://en.refinity.eu/raincoat.html">ecouterre</a> in collaboration with Dutchspirit have designed a conceptual raincoat that is easy to disassemble, with a particular focus on easy disassembly for components; the outer material is stitched instead of glued to the lining, while 'click-able' closures replace traditional velcro, zips or buttons.</p>
Level: 49
Header Text: Disassembly strategy
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Body Text: <p>Considering the product's disassembly strategy at the design stage is essential to facilitate efficient disassembly in order to re-use, re-manufacture or recycle materials and components at the end of the product's first life.</p> <p>Dutch companies <a href="https://en.refinity.eu/raincoat.html">ecouterre</a> in collaboration with Dutchspirit have designed a conceptual raincoat that is easy to disassemble, with a particular focus on easy disassembly for components; the outer material is stitched instead of glued to the lining, while 'click-able' closures replace traditional velcro, zips or buttons.</p>
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Level: 50
Header Text: Mono-material design
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Body Text: <p>Mono-material design is an important step in facilitating disassembly and material re-use, as one of the major obstacles for re-using and recycling materials from post-consumer clothing is that most products are made from more than one material. </p> <p>Jungeun Lee's concept collection 'Wrapped Garments' utilises a synthetic yarn moulding process, creating the entire garment from one material.</p> <p>At the end of its first life, the garment could therefore potentially be disassembled in one process.</p>
Level: 50
Header Text: Mono-material design
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Body Text: <p>Mono-material design is an important step in facilitating disassembly and material re-use, as one of the major obstacles for re-using and recycling materials from post-consumer clothing is that most products are made from more than one material. </p> <p>Jungeun Lee's concept collection 'Wrapped Garments' utilises a synthetic yarn moulding process, creating the entire garment from one material.</p> <p>At the end of its first life, the garment could therefore potentially be disassembled in one process.</p>