Understanding the extent of common users’ capabilities to repair products themselves, and the barriers during the repair could help legislators and manufacturers improve the design of products. This paper investigates ...

The concept of the longevity of retail stores is complex and only slowly gaining acceptance. In part this is due to the different approaches and practices evident in the market positioning of retail brands and also attitudes ...

Furniture industry is slowly transitioning towards the circular economy. Renting furniture can potentially increase its circularity, extend furniture life, and postpone furniture entering end-of-life phase. However, academic ...

This paper contributes to the discourse of upcycling. It attempts to apply an understanding of upcycling to large-scale complex mass production processes, by exploring an ongoing case study that is repurposing waste plastics ...

This paper draws from a study on the long-term active relationships people have with clothes. We developed an online survey with open-ended questions that prompted 170 female participants to write about a garment they have ...

The expected lifetime of a product is a consumer-oriented factor that needs to be considered when assessing product lifetime extension. While numerous studies have analysed the expected lifetime of appliances, only a study ...

The aim of this paper is to extend and articulate an understanding of reduction and limits to consumption as a pathway for achieving resource use within planetary limits. We inquire about leverage points to limit consumption. ...

This paper explores scaling circular product business models in cascaded systems in apparel industry. Through an exploratory case study with a Swedish outdoor clothing brand operating several circular product business ...

A shift to a circular economy is essential, and regulation can play a critical role in this transition. In this paper we examine the regulatory frameworks required to promote a circular economy (CE) for textiles through a ...

Extending the life span of products can be approached in several ways. One promising way is to give users a greater sense of ownership of the products that are used. In the context of Product Service Systems (PSS), products ...