Focus area
Focus area 2: Scaling up initiatives higher up the R-ladder of circularity
Supporting companies in scaling higher R-strategies, such as on-demand production, to reduce overproduction and material use while strengthening the economic value of textiles.
Challenge, vision and goal
Higher R-strategies are too small-scale, too expensive or do not fit the linear system.
Consequence: the sector does not get beyond pilots.
Vision: long term value of textiles by applying higher R-strategies preserving the value of products and materials, with a correspondingly lower environmental impact and a higher earning capacity for the Dutch textile sector.
Goal: reducing overproduction through on-demand production.
Approach and recent activities
- Gathering insight into the routes companies take to apply higher R-strategies
- Training to prepare for the ESPR (together with Modint and Circo)
- Financial model to calculate economic opportunities
- Recommendations for applying the DPP (together with Modint and GS1)
- Training permanently included in Modint’s offering
Upcoming activities
- Set up a pre-competitive collaboration with streetwear brands to improve efficiency through on-demand production.
- Aim: improve financial and economic performance while at the same time reducing production and material use during production.
- Collaborate with Collectief Circulair Textiel to apply eco-modulation