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The textile industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all international flights and ocean shipping combined. At the same time, emissions are unevenly distributed both globally and within national borders: 20 % of the population is responsible for a significantly higher proportion of the emissions caused by clothing purchases. One-dimensional measures that simply increase prices are thus inadequate for a sustainability transformation of the clothing sector. Instead, a multi-dimensional combination of efficiency and sufficiency strategies, including a social justice perspective, is needed. 

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Viele Kommunen fordern bereits Nachhaltigkeitskriterien in ihren Textilausschreibungen ein. Oftmals geht es hier um grundlegende Arbeitsrechte oder um Biobaumwolle. Mit mehr Marktverfügbarkeit und stärkeren verbindlichen Forderungen, welche auch auf Bundesebene verlangt werden, kann auch das Niveau der Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen angehoben werden. In der vorliegenden Handreichung sollen zum einen die Hintergründe dargestellt werden, warum es für Kommunen wichtig ist, bei Textilausschreibungen auf Kriterien des zirkulären Wirtschaftens und gute Beschwerdemechanismen in der Produktion zu achten. Zum anderen wird konkret aufgezeigt, wie diese Kriterien eingefordert werden und welche Nachweise akzeptiert werden können. Die Kriterien können in bestehende Fragebögen integriert oder alleinstehend genutzt werden.  

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This report—Destinations of Dutch Used Textiles: Uses and Risks after Export— explores what happens to textiles collected in the Netherlands in their various destination countries and highlights the impacts and risks associated with these exports as well as how they are addressed. 

‍This study aims at empowering the government and value chain stakeholders to better contribute to the creation of a circular and fair value chain for post-consumer textiles.

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UNEP has created a series of reports to support a transition towards a more sustainable and circular textile value chain. This current report builds on this work by presenting the roadmap needed to achieve sustainability and circularity in the textile value chain.

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Servitization is a growing phenomenon to improve resource efficiency, leading to positive effects for the environmental and for society. Product service systems are one of the most effective instruments to attain a resource-efficient circular economy.This report demonstrates an economic feasibility assessment, by examining two examples of servitization for circularity in the apparel and fashion industry, and outlining potential business models, along with prospects for future research.

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