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“Sustainable fashion is developed and optimised for a purpose”

Sweden as a country is a pioneer in sustainable fashion research. Mistra Future Fashion is a unique interdisciplinary research project hailed by IVA as one of the most important research projects in the area of sustainability. A m…

“The greenest retail is second-hand”

Decision-makers, the clothing industry and consumers must all take responsibility for reducing the carbon footprint of clothing. Today, the production phase accounts for 80% of emissions generated from Swedish clothing consumption…

“The most sustainable garments are already in our wardrobe”

Eighty percent of the climate impact from Swedish clothing consumption occurs during the production phase. Using a garment twice as many times almost halves the garment’s environmental impact. A growing number of sustainable busin…

The world's first environmentally declared clothing collection

When Fristads wanted to develop a sustainable collection, they asked themselves how they could prove that the clothes really were sustainable. The answer was to produce an environmental declaration for each garment, and regulatory…

The production chain is key to achieving sustainability

A t-shirt made from organic cotton is not always a better environmental choice than one made from conventional cotton.  And viscose can be among the worst and best environmental choices, depending on the factory. A new study …

Celebrated project can meet the threat of antibiotic resistance

When bacteria develop a defence against antibiotics, new solutions must be found. An EU-financed project under the leadership of RISE has succeeded in demonstrating that peptides may be one such solution. “The results point the wa…

Materials of the future – how will they look like?

Materials of the future will have applications that we can hardly imagine today. But above all, they will be characterised by some key traits: they will be bio-based, circular, strong but light, customised for their exact area of …

Sensor shirt keeps track of health

It is increasingly important for doctors to have the correct data on which to base their judgements. RISE is helping to develop a shirt that can aid stroke, epilepsy and Parkinson’s patients. “The objectives are that patients shou…

New Swedish method a breakthrough in textile recycling

The Blend Re:wind separation process makes it possible to recycle mixed-textile clothing, for example cotton-polyester blends. The reclaimed fibres can then be used as new raw materials in existing textile manufacturing processes.…

“I want to believe that we can change”

Carrot or stick? Environmental economist Haben Tekie studies how people can be induced to do the right thing without impinging overly on our lifestyles.

Paper or textile – why not textilepaper?

Waste generated by textile recycling can be used to make paper. Using this waste as a raw material instead of incinerating it also reduces our environmental impact.

Designers and researchers team up to produce new high-end materials

The EU Trash-2-Cash project has, through the new pioneering Design Driven Material Innovation (DDMI) approach, developed new regenerated textile fibres from recycled textile products with the same high quality as the original prod…