WRAP launched Circular Design Toolkit to reduce design impact
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Climate action NGO WRAP launched the Circular Design Toolkit which will help textiles organisations embed circular design principles into their design and product development processes to maximise the life of garments, select the most sustainable materials and ensure they are designed to be recycled.
As much as 80% of a textile product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage. Therefore, the decisions made by design and product development teams have a huge impact on a product’s environmental footprint – from the raw materials used, to how the product is manufactured, the length of time it is kept in use and what happens to it when it is no longer desired or reaches the end of its usable life.
The Circular Design Toolkit aims to simplify the theory of circular design and break it down into a framework of more manageable actions and strategies for design and product development teams to use. Designed in collaboration with industry through the Textiles 2030’s Circular Design Working Group, it sets out case studies and examples of businesses already making progress against the four circular design pillars - reduce material impacts, optimise resources, design for longevity and design for recovery - to inspire further industry action.
