New Textile Waste Management Through Collaborative Business Models for Sustainable Innovation
In most nations, textile waste management is recognized to be a multi-actor system; however most participating actors tend to play a significant role in handling and treating the textile waste single-handedly thus resulting in a very fragmented system fra
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Abstract In most nations, textile waste management is recognized to be a multi-actor system; however most participating actors tend to play a significant role in handling and treating the textile waste single-handedly thus resulting in a very fragmented system fraught with many challenges. In addition, the main textile waste treatment, e.g. in Sweden is still incineration (nearly 55% of per capita disposal) resulting in low degrees of value generation. Nearly 20% of the waste is handled by ten major charities in Sweden. This highlights the necessity for the actors to perform in a network and expand their collaboration, thus move more efficiently towards development of a sustainable value innovation, and find an alternative new way to manage textile waste. Given this our study strives to investigate the challenges and opportunities of implementation of a collaborative business model for sustainable innovation. By taking the benefits of actor-, activityand value-mapping technique, our study helps in gaining a better realization of the Swedish textile waste management system. The core values of actors have been identified along with the identification of their shared and conflicting values with the aid of a value mapping tool. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews from seven organizations representing the Swedish textile waste management system. Overall our study provides a rich and descriptive picture of the participating actors, their activities, collaboration and value-orientations within the Swedish textile waste management system, and highlights the key drivers of a collaborative solution, viz. legislation, trust and shared understanding and communication, that can be foreseen to increase dialogue and collaboration among actors to support the movement from egocentric to a multi-actor business model. A clear benefit of such collaborative business models is substitution of incineration by higher degrees of reuse of textiles, which has high potential to generate positive environmental impact, through reduction of toxic effects of textile incineration and also new production processes.
A. Chizaryfard Y. Samie R. Pal (&) Department of Business Administration and Textile Management, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 S.S. Muthu (ed.), Detox Fashion, Textile Science and Clothing Technology, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4780-0_3
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Keywords Waste management Textile waste Value mapping business model Sustainable innovation Sweden
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1 Introduction Increase in consumption of textiles has introduced environmental challenges in regards to production, use and finally end-of-life management of textile materials during the last decades (Watson et al. 2016). In the case of Sweden, the consumption has grown 40% over the last ten years which results in greater amount of textile waste (Naturvårdsverket 2013). This highlights the need for a well-developed and efficient t
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