Torsdag 23. november, kl. 19:30 – 20:30, Haugesund folkebibliotek
Plutselig voksen? Klesdesigner og forsker Lisbeth Løvbak Berg kommer til oss fra OsloMet for å snakke om bærekraft og klær.
Les mer om arrangementet her (haugesundbibliotek.no)
Lansering, Fredag 3. november, kl. 13:00, Vågbøveien 399, Tingvoll
Velkommen til lansering av «Olve»
Nytt liv for norsk naturfarga ull – Tingvoll Ull
Bruk av lokale ressurser i produksjon av klær, damen bak «Olve» – Ingun Grimstad Klepp
Hvorfor er jeg medeier i Tingvoll Ull? – Kristin Sørheim
Tirsdag 24. oktober, kl. 17:00-18:30
VAREhuset Strømsø, Tollbugata 7, Drammen
Hvor lenge lever et klesplagg i skapet ditt?
Når blir klær avfall? Er det egentlig så enkelt å reparere?
Fikseriet inviterer til foredrag om nordmenns klesforbruk med Anna Schytte Sigaard, stipendiat på Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO.
Velkommen til VAREhuset i Tollbugata 7, tirsdag 24. oktober kl. 17:00.
Anna Schytte Sigaard er stipendiat på Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO og jobber med bærekraftig kles- og tekstilforbruk. Gjennom sitt PhD-prosjekt vil hun bl.a. undersøke mengder, tilstand, avhendingsmetode og -grunn samt fiberinnhold for klær og andre tekstiler som går ut av bruk i norske husholdninger. I dette foredraget vil hun presentere funn fra prosjektet som viser noe om hva nordmenn kvitter seg med, hvorfor de kvitter seg med det og hvilken tilstand det er i når det går ut av bruk.
Les mer om prosjektet til Anna her: https://www.oslomet.no/…/forskningsp…/want-not-waste-not
Fikseriet er Drammen kommunes satsing på ombruk og reparasjon. Gjennom prosjektet jobber vi for å tilrettelegge for mer ombruk og reparasjon i kommunen, slik at det blir lettere for innbyggerne å ta vare på det man allerede har.
Les mer om Fikseriet her: https://www.drammen.kommune.no/…/miljo-klima…/fikseriet/
Finn arrangementet på Facebook her: https://fb.me/e/3es8YvIzz
Webinar Monday 23rd of October 2023 08:30-11:00
Both the volumes of textile waste and the interest in what to do with it, are growing. Fortunately, knowledge about what textile waste consists of is also growing, as is the interest in regulating the sector.
In this webinar, we will summarize several recent reports on textile waste in Norway and other countries, as well as a report that examines whether environmental strategies take seriously the fact that if the textiles are to be used up, then less must be produced.
The clothes we dispose of are often used – but far from used up.
We ask:
– How can discarded textiles be used in the best possible way to ensure new use, and what kind of knowledge enables us to reduce the amount of used but not used up textiles?
– How much textiles, especially synthetics, are disposed of in Norway? What do wasted textiles consist of, and why and how are they disposed of?
– Which regulatory measures will can be implemented in order to reduce the volumes of textile waste?
This is a dissemination seminar under the Wasted Textiles research project at SIFO, Oslomet, funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Retailers Environment Fund.
The webinar will be held in English.
08.30–09.00
Registration and coffee for those who attend physically
09.00–09.05
Welcome!
Moderator: Jens Måge, Advisor, Avfall Norge
09.05–09.15
Plastic – The elephant in the room: Who dares to talk about it?
Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University – SIFO
09.15–09.30
Waste analysis in the Wasted Textiles project
Frode Syversen, CEO, Mepex | Kristiane Rabben, Advisor, Mepex Consult AS
09.30–09.45
Method for Picking Analyses of Textiles – REdu Wasted Textiles Summer Project 2023
Saeid Sheikhi, MSc student in Information Systems and Business Analytics, Høgskolen Kristiania | Siri Vestengen, Masterstudent Economics, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) | Camilla Sunde, MSc in Informatics: Digital Economics and Leadership, Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | Eva Valborg Hovda Masterstudent Material Science, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)
09.45–09.55
Dutch experiences with waste analyzes on textiles – reflections on the types of brands found.
Hilde van Duijn, Head of Global Value Chains, Circle Economy Foundation
09:55-10.00
Experiences from picking analysis in Svalbard
Henrik Lystad, CEO Norwaste
10.00–10.15
Coffee break
10.15–10.30
How can a producer responsibility scheme be set up to reduce environmental impact?
Dina Lingås, Consultant, NORION Consult
10.30–11.00
Questions and discussion
Når: 18.10.2023, kl. 10:00-15:15
Hvor: OsloMet, Pilestredet 35, Ellen Gleditschs hus: PH131, Anna Felbers auditorium (1. etasje)
Lasting-prosjektet ledet av Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO ved OsloMet, som har samlet aktører fra hvitevarebransjen, tekstiler og møbler, skal formidle funn fra det 3-årige arbeidet. Prosjektet har forsket på materialstrømmene, forbruker- og bedriftsperspektiver samt politikk på området med mål om en bærekraftig fremtid med produkter som varer lenger, samtidig som vi faktisk reduserer forbruket. Dette seminaret vil være ekstra spennende for deg som jobber med bærekraft, produktdesign, forretningsmodeller eller politiske redskaper.
Seminaret er etterfulgt av en workshop hvor vi går fra det teoretiske til det praktiske og ser på hvordan vi kan leve med tingene våre i fremtiden. Her vil vi leke oss med «design briefs» basert på funn fra prosjektet.
Seminaret vil være på engelsk, mens workshopen vil være på norsk.
Klikk her for å melde deg på (nettskjema.no)
9.30 Doors open – coffee available
10:00 Welcome by Harald Throne-Holst, Researcher at SIFO
10:05 Consumer views on increasing product lifetimes by Kirsi Laitala, project leader and Researcher at SIFO
10:30 Let’s see the forest for the trees: industrial ecology insights into product lifetimes by Kamila Krych, PhD Candidate at NTNU
10:55 Conflicting narratives of product longevity by Lisbeth Løvbak Berg, Researcher at SIFO
11:20 Durability in product policy – The limitation of the dream of longer life by Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Professor in Clothing and Sustainability at SIFO
11:45 Lunch
12:30 Lost in sameness: plurality, clothing and durability by Kate Fletcher, Professor at the Royal Danish Academy
12:55 Discussion: overproduction and product longevity
13:25 Coffee break and room change for workshop participants: Room PI451 (4th floor)
13:45 Workshop (på norsk): Tingene og oss i fremtiden
15:15 End
Lasting-prosjektet er finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd. Les mer om prosjektet på prosjektbloggen (lasting.world).
Hybrid event, 28-29th of September 2023.
Tone Skårdal Tobiasson will present the report THE PLASTIC ELEPHANT at the conference.
Natural Fibre Connect (NFC) is an alliance between leading alpaca, cashmere, mohair and wool organisations. The NFC logo represents each of these four natural fibres, woven together by their shared goals and challenges as well as their commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – as seen by its resemblance to the SDG17 icon.
The goal of NFC is a world with more Natural Fibres by 2030. Through its events, NFC enables consensus building as well as sharing and understanding of the growers’ and herders’ perspectives.
Actively participate and connect with others at the in-person main conference Natural Fibre Connect 2023 hosted in Biellay, Italy – the center for manufacturing precious animal fibres. Visit various mills, listen to live speakers and participate in workshops and panel discussions while also enjoying the beautiful surroundings, food, and drink of Northern Italy.
Join Natural Fibre Connect from the comfort of your home and listen to all live sessions, workshops, and panel discussions. Network with other online participants, visit the online exhibition hall and ask questions. Presentations will be translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Mongolian. Did you miss a session? No problem, all recordings will be available after the conference.
Click here to see the program of the conference (naturalfibreconnect.com)
Click here to see the recordings from the conference (linkedin.com)
Authors: Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Kerli Kant Hvass
Among sustainable fashion and textile themes, product durability has recently come into focus within EU policy making. The dominant understanding is that increased textile lifespan will reduce environmental impacts, but this intrinsic link is not supported by research. The volume of clothing produced poses the greatest environmental burdens. Increased clothes availability leads to longer lifespan due to reduced utilization. To reduce the environmental impact of increased textile volumes measures should be expanded to encompass not only product design, life-prolonging, and end-of-life strategies, but also the volume of products to market. This concept paper contributes to the debate on how to address the growing amount of textile waste by applying the knowledge gained from consumer research regarding clothing use and proposing a regulatory measure called Targeted Producer Responsibility (TPR). The central method of TPR is waste analyses which relies on actual use – or non-use – of products as the starting point for eco-modulated fees. TPR reverses EPR and uses waste for overproduction knowledge, thus proposing a tool that can potentially reduce the total environmental impact of textiles.
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Click here to download and read the full conference proceedings (aalto.fi)
Authors: Harald Throne-Holst and Kirsi Laitala
Many strategies are proposed that should enable the consumers to keep using the products for longer, but there is less research on which and how consumer practices contribute to longer lifespans. In this paper we focus on two specific, distinct ways of reaching long lifespans: 1) retaining redundant products even though they are not needed or used, and 2) keeping on using flawed products despite they no longer functioning, fitting, or delivering the expected service level. In the former, the products are passive while in the latter they remain in active use and thus reach longer service life. The discussion is based on six focus groups conducted in connection with the project LASTING. The overarching theme was product longevity of three product groups: electronics, textiles, and furniture. Our analysis points to five categories of explanations for products that are either kept despite the lack of any intention of using them again or retained in active use despite flaws: Economic, Ethical, Social, Emotional, and Intentions. It remains important to focus on active service life and various ways to promote it to reduce the environmental and climate impacts of consumption. The role of each of the five categories will be discussed, as well as implications for sustainability and policy options.
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Authors: Kirsi Laitala, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg and Pål Strandbakken.
The Consumer Purchases Act is one of the cornerstones for ensuring that businesses are liable for defective or faulty products that do not meet the minimum requirements for lifespans. However, this right is too seldom used by consumers. This paper discusses the reasons for not complaining based on six consumer focus groups, where in total 36 consumers described furniture, electronics, and textile products that they were dissatisfied with. Many complaints were not made due to consumers’ cost-benefit evaluations, where they considered the economic costs, time use, and the needed effort, as well as the probability of getting the complaint accepted. Many participants lacked the competencies required to make the judgment when the right is applicable and where and how to proceed. Further, the expectations based on price and brand, properties of the product such as materials, as well as the type of fault and its relation to use were important. Strengthening and extending consumer rights to complain are discussed as an important part of the strategy to increase the quality of goods and extend their lifetimes. The findings show barriers and opportunities to the efficacy of this strategy that is highly relevant for policy development. There is a need for clear guidelines on what the consumer rights are for the specific products, what is considered unacceptable abrasion and normal use, and differentiation between commercial warranties and legal rights. Complaints are an important avenue for businesses to gain information about the performance of their products, and for legal durability expectations to be enforced.
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Authors: Lisbeth Løvbak Berg and Marie Hebrok
This paper explores narratives of product longevity expressed by businesses and consumers, with the aim of illuminating and comparing ways in which the two stakeholder groups express their engagement with products in the context of prolonging their lifespans. We base our analysis on consumer focus groups and interviews with company representatives. Our focus is on textiles (incl. clothing) and furniture. We find that technical and emotional durability are the two dominant ways of understanding product longevity by company representatives. Consumers, however, tell a different story, of living with their things, of use, of time passing, and of life events triggering change. This is a context in which social and systemic factors play a large role in determining the lifespan of a product – factors that are external to the product itself. Although all can agree on the importance of technical durability, problems connected to excessive production volumes and how products feature in everyday life are avoided in narratives produced by business actors. We argue that corporate narratives of product longevity are diverting our attention away from production toward consumption, keeping questions of volume and growth at arm’s length. These conflict with consumer narratives of product longevity that grapple with the materiality of the things within the context of lived lives in a consumer economy.
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