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Circular bedding and workwear – requirements and sustainability effects. Integrative research report

More and more textiles are produced worldwide, with serious consequences for the environment. A possible solution: a circular textile industry with functioning recycling processes and corresponding infrastructures. The research project ‘DiTex - Digital technologies as enablers of a resource-efficient circular B2B textile industry’ is testing a circular textile industry in the business customer segment, i.e. in the area of business-to-business (B2B), in the character of a feasibility study. This is based on the assessment that enormous volumes of identical textiles are in circulation in the commercial context of workwear and flat linen (bedding, towels) and that the logistics are well organised and established in the individual facilities via fixed dispensing and return points. The participants in this project network consider it particularly possible to combine a resource-efficient ecological use of materials with a service-based business model geared towards frequent use cycles in this largely closed B2B textile industry, which uses digital technologies smartly. DiTex wants to be a testing platform for this.

This Integrative Research Report (IB) provides as complete a documentation of the results of the DiTex work as possible after two out of a total of three years of project duration. All research and verification results achieved by summer 2021 in work packages (WP) 1 and 2 are documented, evaluated and interpreted in this report.

Scope: 198 pages
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