Project structure
The project Design to Collect & Recycle, aims to inspire and help companies go further in their tasks to collect used textiles and to facilitate recycling of the products by correct choices in the design. The conditions of recycling have to influence the design to enable recycling to a higher degree. This leads to a contribution to fulfilling the UN’s sustainability goals: 8.4 Improving resource efficiency in consumption and production, 12.2 Sustainable management and use of natural resources, 12.4 Responsible handlings of chemicals and waste, and 12.5 Significantly reducing the amount of waste.
Read more about the structure and content via this link, in Swedish (.pdf)
EVENT ONE: The Conditions to Recycle
Lecture 1: Collect used textiles, Magnus Nilsson
The conditions of recycling start in the collection of the textile resource. It is important to collect the textiles in a way that keeps its value as high as possible. Björkåfrihet is an important part in collecting textiles from both the private and public sectors.
Magnus Nilsson, Sustainability Manager at Björkåfrihet
Magnus has a past as a manager and experience with procurements. He has many years of experience in collecting textiles and recyclable items. As well as with logistics around these recycled material flows. As sustainability manager at Björkåfrihet, he ensures that as much material as possible is reused or recycled, in the best way and by the right parties. He also works to persuade the private and public sectors to increase the proportion of used material in their operations.
Speaker presentation
Link to speaker presentation (.pdf)
Do you want to know more? Links to extra material
- Återvinningsbarometern 2019, del 1 – En enda nytillverkad jacka har större klimatpåverkan än 393 second hand jackor (.pdf, Swedish)
- Återvinningsbarometern 2019, del 2 – Endast en av tjugofem svenskar vet att kläder som återvinns inte kan bli till nya kläder (.pdf, Swedish)
Lecture 2: Recycle Textiles, Lisa Schwarz Bour & Mattias Andersson
Recycling is made by mechanical or chemical processes. Which process that is possible or most suitable for a product depends on for example the material content, fabric structure, accessories, chemical content etc.
Lisa Schwarz Bour, Unit Director at RISE
Lisa Schwarz Bour, works as Director for the unit The Environment and Sustainable Chemistry at RISE. Lisa has since 2015 worked within the field of textile recycling and textile management systems for a circular economy, and has been in several other projects in the field, including Test bed textile recycling, Trash-2-Cash, SIPTex, Tex.IT, ENTIS, WargoTex, RFID FashionTech, CelluTex, Classification and Risk Assessment of Textile Recycling Textiles (Vinnova) and projects within SIP RE: Source. The focus of these projects ranges from applications of recycled textile, through information systems for transparency and traceability to the chemical content of textile for material recycling.
Mathias Andersson, Project Manager at RISE
Ph.D. researcher and project manager in polymeric materials at RISE. He works mainly with plastic recycling, both in mechanical and chemical recycling. His expertise lies in the chemistry and physics of polymers and he has therefore worked a lot with analyzes and evaluations of plastic materials. In the field of plastic recycling, he has experience in regulated chemicals, depolymerization, recyclable packaging, bioplastics, and more.
Speaker presentation
Link to speaker presentation (.pdf)
Do you want to know more? Links to extra material
- Research and identification of textile plants in the Nordic countries & Europe- focusing on fiber – to – fiber recycling for the fashion & textile industry (external web page)
- Sustainability and Circularity in the Textile Value Chain – Global Stocktaking (external web page)
- Mot en textil cirkulär ekonomi – Resumé av forskningsläget (.pdf, Swedish)
EVENT 3: ANALYSIS
Lecture 3: Consequence analysis, Jonas Larsson
JONAS LARSSON
Jonas Larsson, forskare inom Textilt Management med fokus på att designa bort slöseri och skadliga ämnen från textila värdekedjor, se till så att produkter ges långa liv och att stödja regenerativa naturliga system.
Lecture 4, In the light of the LCA, Jutta Hildebrand
JUTTA HILDEBRAND
Jutta Hildenbrand, PhD, Senior Scientist. She is a specialist in environmental systems analysis of textiles, with over 15 years of experience in the field. She performs and supervises research in the field of LCA of textile products and chemicals management commissioned both by authorities, industry and public funding agencies.
