• A matter of timing: system requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions 

  Russell, Jennifer D.; Svensson-Höglund, Sahra; Luth Richter, Jessika; Dalhammar, Carl (2021)

  Research into repair within the circular economy (CE) typically focuses on technical aspects of design, policy, and markets, and often assumes or implies simplified conditions for the user/owner and the product-system to ...
• Opportunities for 3D-printable spare parts: estimations from historical data 

  Samenjo, Karl; van Oudheusden, Alma; Bolaños, Julieta; Flipsen, Bas; Faludi, Jeremy (2021)

  The Sharepair project aims to decrease the waste of electronic and electric consumer products and increase their useful life, by supporting repair communities and scaling up citizen repairs through digital tools. One of ...
• Towards a healthy urban metabolism for textile waste through social theories 

  Yasaman, Samie (2021)

  This study investigates the context of post-consumer fashion textile waste in the urbanised city and brings into dialogue the sub-field of discard studies, circular economy and social theories. This is to enable an alternative ...
• Is design thinking an effective method to generate circular economy based solutions in a socially distanced world? Experiences from an online design thinking workshop 

  Santa-Maria, Tomas; Diaz, Anna; Delgadillo, Estephania; Vermeulen, Walter J. V.; Reyes-Carrillo, Tatiana; Baumgartner, Rupert J. (2021)

  Circular Economy (CE) is commonly proposed as a means to advance towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Design thinking (DT) has been identified as an innovative problem-solving approach, capable of addressing complex ...
• Communicating access-based consumption: company framings of home furnishings rental 

  Schoonover, Heather; Mont, Oksana; Klintman, Mikael (2021)

  Access-based business models such as product rental hold promise extending product lifetimes. However, a lack of consumer acceptance hinders these models from becoming mainstream in the business-to-consumer market. In order ...
• Recycle or reuse? A life-cycle-assessment-based model to evaluate end-of-life decisions for photovoltaic panels 

  Schünemann, Jaron; Finke, Sebastian; Severengiz, Semih; Forrister, Hayden (2021)

  This paper aims to assess the environmental and economic impact when it comes to the presumed end of life for solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. A recycling option is compared to the reuse of the PV panels in the two impact ...
• Sharing economy rebound- the case of peer-2-peer sharing of food waste 

  Meshulam, Tamar; Font-Vivanco, David; Blass, Vered; Makov, Tamar (2021)

  The Sharing Economy is commonly assumed to promote sustainable consumption and improve material efficiency through better utilization of existing product stocks. Yet the cost-savings and convenience of using sharing ...
• Fashion fix: exploring garment repair from a critical fashion practice perspective 

  McCorkill, Georgia (Fashion fix: exploring garment repair from a critical fashion practice perspective, 2021)

  Contemporary garment repair can be characterised as creative resistance to the proliferation of mass production and fast fashion and is practiced by amateurs, professionals, artists and activists. Mending is an excellent ...
• Castoff from London, Pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second hand clothing 

  Ayorkor Manieson, Lydia; Ferrero-Regis, Tiziana (2021)

  African countries are today the major importers of the lowest grade of second-hand (SH) clothing. As a result of the complexity and opacity of the international geographies of SH clothing trade, inequalities and ...
• The Amsterdam Doughnut: moving towards “strong sustainable consumption” policy? 

  Maldini, Irene (2021)

  Scholars in sustainable consumption increasingly highlight the limitations of “weak sustainable consumption” approaches to overcome the challenges of the current environmental crisis. While efforts to enable cleaner ...
• Reviving the milk man: consumers’ evaluations of circular reusable packaging offers 

  Magnier, Lise; Gil-Pérez, Ignacio (2021)

  The question of prolonging the lifetime of food packages before they are disposed of has largely been overlooked. Yet, reusing packaging could bring interesting environmental benefits. In this research, we take a ...
• “When we got divorced, I left all my things behind”. How the lifespan of household goods is linked to the biographical trajectory of their owners 

  Madon, Julie (2021)

  Social science research suggests that in our current affluent society, most individuals are accustomed to replacing their objects rather than keeping them at all costs. However, in this society, some individuals still ...
• Multi life cycle assessment: a potential assessment method for product lifespan and environmental performance 

  Lu, Bin; Li, Bo; Song, Xiaolong; Yang, Jianxin (2021)

  Product lifespan is one of key factors for product life cycle environmental performance. Lifespan extending is always considered positive for better life cycle environmental performance. From the view of one product, ...
• Quantifying the conservation value of independent, place-based repair: a case study of an electronics repair cluster in Lima, Peru 

  Lepawsky, Josh; Cáceres, Kathia; Gusukuma, Marco; Kahhat, Ramzy (2021)

  Repair and maintenance of consumer electronics can conserve the materials and energy they embody. Independent or third-party businesses are important sites of such repair and maintenance activity. While the value of ...
• Clothing longevity: the relationship between the number of users, how long and how many times garments are used 

  Laitala, Kirsi; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad (2021)

  Reuse of clothing is a central strategy in circular economy for keeping the resources and materials in the loop longer. This paper studies the correlation between clothing service lifespans measured in years, number ...
• A stock-driven model for assessing environmental benefits of product lifetime extension in Norwegian households 

  Krych, Kamila; Pettersen, Johan Berg (2021)

  Household consumption of durable goods is associated with environmental impacts in production, use and end-of-life treatment, all of which could be affected by actions to extend product lifetime. In order to estimate ...
• Improving repair viability in the circular economy: a multifaceted endeavor. 

  Korsunova, Angelina; Vainio, Annukka; Heiskanen, Eva (2021)

  In the context of circular economy (CE) repair represents an important value retention strategy, as it adds value to goods, instead of using it up. Previous studies have explored individual level motivations and barriers ...
• Understanding decision making for reuse, repair, and refurbishment in the dismantling of end-of-life heating pumps 

  Kopka, Jan-Philip; Preut, Anna; Hohaus, Christian (2021)

  The research project “Resource Efficiency through smart Pumps” (ResmaP) aims at increasing the overall resource efficiency of heating pumps with their entire lifespan in mind. While the energy consumption of modern pumps ...
• Testing product-level indicators for a more circular economy 

  Jerome, Adeline; Helander, Harald; Ljunggren, Maria; Janssen, Matty (2021)

  Product level indicators can be essential for companies to guide and monitor the transition towards a more circular economy (CE). In particular, CE indicators focusing on physical resource flows are needed for informing ...
• Three types of approaches to product longevity: a multiple case study of 18 best-practice companies 

  Byrial Jensen, Peter; Møller Haase, Louise; Nhu Laursen, Linda (2021)

  Product longevity is one of the keys to achieving more sustainable production and consumption patterns. However, in many companies, extending the longevity of products means overcoming several complex barriers. For ...

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