CLOTHING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
- Complement clothing products with all-inclusive services for maintenance and/or repair, as well as a temporary replacement in the meanwhile Jeans with repair service – Nudie jeans
- Complement clothing products with services for technological upgrade
- Complement clothing products with services for aesthetical/cultural upgrade Lease a Jean – MUD Jeans
- Complement clothing products with services that enable their reconfigurability, e.g. adaptation in new location
- Complement clothing offer with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at re-using or re-manufacturing Lease a Jean – MUD Jeans
- Offer services for shared use of ownerless clothing, e.g. pay-per-period, pay-per-use Baby Clothing Subscription – Bundlee; Designer Clothing Rental – HURR;
- Offer services for shared ownership of clothing collection, e.g. collective purchase and use of clothing by multiple users
- Offer services for sharing and/or exchange of clothing Bag Swap – Freitag
- Offer services for the reuse and second-hand selling of clothing, by providing infrastructures (e.g. collection points, clothing cleaning) or platforms (e.g. online marketplace of used clothing)
- Clothing producer/provider uses digital channels to offer information/guidance services for clothing purchase and care, e.g. virtual fitting rooms, repair and care instructions Repair & WornWear services – Patagonia
- Clothing producer/provider creates partnerships with locally-based clothing care service providers, with all-inclusive maintenance, repair, upgrade, end-of-life collection/valorisation etc.
- Clothing producer/provider creates partnerships with locally-based acknowledged suppliers of resources for the clothing pre-production, production and care, e.g. local material and energy suppliers
- Clothing developer/designer creates partnerships with clothing manufacturers for local delivery (e.g. a decentralised manufacturers network) Producer to customer business model – Artknit
- Clothing producer/provider creates partnerships with clothes retailers and other stakeholders to reduce/avoid clothing packaging, either tertiary, secondary or primary
- Clothing producer/provider creates partnerships to reduce or avoid transportation/packaging of semi-finished clothing products, e.g. partnerships with textile suppliers and manufacturers
- Offer clothing products with reusable/returnable packaging Reusable Packaging – Repack
- Offer remote support and status monitoring of activities and interventions to be carried out on-site by the user related to clothing care, e.g. maintenance, repair, upgrade, end-of-life collection/valorisation
- Complement the supply of resources/semi-finished products/consumables related to the clothing system (energy, detergents, dying substances, etc.) with services for their optimal use
- Offer access to clothing products or related infrastructures (enabling platform) through payment based on the unit of satisfaction, e.g. the use of a garment for a number of times/specific occasion Shared Sewing Spaces – Cosewing
- Offer access to clothing products or clothing care infrastructures (enabling platform) through payment based on a fixed fee per given period of time
- Offer access to clothing along with clothing care services to client/final user through payment based on the unit of satisfaction
- Provide resource saving technologies and practices to upgrade existing clothing related equipment where the investment is financed through subsequent resource savings
- Offer collective use of clothing care infrastructures Self-service laundry – Ondablu
- Outsource and/or offer activities when higher specialisation and technological efficiency of clothing products/infrastructures are available
- Create partnerships to use/integrate/complement existing clothing system infrastructures, e.g. sewing or dyeing facilities
- Outsource activities when higher scale economies are feasible along the clothing system
- Complement the clothing system offer with services designed for their adaptation in the context of use aimed at resource optimisation for clothing production and care e.g. custom-designed drying solutions depending on local weather conditions
- Complement clothing production and care with services designed for their adaptation to use in variations of resource requirements e.g. adaptive drying solutions depending on variable atmospheric conditions
- Offer clothing products/accessories based on demand aimed at avoiding unsold inventory and/or surplus production Crownsourced Production – Gustin; On Demand Production – JCRT
- Complement clothing offer with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at recycling Biodegradable Clothing – Woldford
- Complement clothing offer with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at (low-impact) energy recovery, i.e. incineration for energy generation Biodegradable Clothing – Woldford
- Complement clothing offer with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at composting Biodegradable Clothing – Woldford
- Complement clothing care equipment with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at recycling/energy recovery Biodegradable Clothing – Woldford
- Create local partnerships aimed at symbiotic/cascade approach for recycling/composting of disposed clothes into products with lower requirements within other sectors, e.g. textile recycling as “soft” filling for other products Clothing Collection – Eileen Fisher
- Engage energy suppliers offering renewable energy or renewable energy systems (eventually locally installed) for the functioning of the various phases of the clothing system
- Engage a material supplier to use renewable and bio-degradable materials in the clothing system ‘Cyclon’ shoe subscription – On running; Clothing with regenerated fibers – RIFO’ LAB
- Engage energy suppliers offering the design, installation, maintenance, repair, etc. of on-site passive energy systems for the functioning of the clothing system’s various phases
- Create partnerships that enable/increase the use of recycled materials in the clothing system from disposed products of other sectors
- Create partnerships with other producers to reuse or recycle toxic/harmful by-products from the clothing system
- Complement substances/semi-finished products or clothes with services that minimise/treat toxic or harmful emissions of processes along the clothing pre-production, production and use stages, e.g. full management service to monitor and treat ecotoxic outputs from washing processes Integrated Informative Labels – Zyosh
- Complement toxic or harmful substances/semi-finished products for the clothing system with all-inclusive end-of-life treatments Cleaning cloth rental service – MEWA
- Offer toxic management services to stakeholders of the clothing value production chain, through payment based on the unit of satisfaction, e.g. full management of pesticides