To find the manufacturer's optimal recycling mode under the dual factors of government subsidies and consumers’ low-carbon preference, we construct three game models by taking the wholesale price, retail price, recovery rate and carbon emission reduction level as the decision variables. Then,...

Textiles and garment lifetimes / Kirsi Niinimäki -- Designing for (extended) product and material lifetimes / Kirsi Niinimäki -- Fashion designers leading the way to extend textile lifetimes in public-private enterprises / Ulla Raebuild and Vibeke Riisberg -- I like it because it's been worn...

In contrast to the linear "take-make-dispose" model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is based on re-use, repair, ecodesign, industrial ecology,...

In the second half of the 20th century we got better at extracting the earth's resources. Much better. So much better in fact, that for 40 years, despite demand for natural resources growing, the cost of those resources decreased. Not anymore. Since 2000, prices for the world's natural resources...