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New Textile Waste Management Through Collaborative Business Models for Sustainable Innovation

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Detox Fashion

Part of the book series: Textile Science and Clothing Technology ((TSCT))

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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-, activity- and 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.

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The research was part-funded by Re:textile, an extended regional research initiative taken by Västra Götaland Region (Region of West Sweden). The author would like to thank the funding agency for the financial support.

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    Armaghan Chizaryfard, Yasaman Samie & Rudrajeet Pal

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Appendix 1

Appendix 1

Interview guide

  • Mapping main actors of TWM system in Sweden

  1. 1.

    From your perspective, who are the main participating actors in Swedish textile waste management system?

  2. 2.

    Do you recognize any gap or missed actor?

  3. 3.

    How do you participate in textile waste management in Sweden? What is your role and impact in terms (social, economic, environment) aspects?

  • Activity mapping in relation to actors interactions

  1. 1.

    Would you explain the core activities and values in your organization in textile waste management context?

  2. 2.

    Would you mention the activities you are involved with in this system?

  3. 3.

    Is there any collaboration among the main actors to facilitate the waste management and overcome challenges and create values from opportunities?

  4. 4.

    Do you have any collaboration with any other main actors within textile management system to implement your activities and reaching your values and goals?

  5. 5.

    Does your organization have any motivations towards collaboration with other actors?

  6. 6.

    In case you have any collaborative relationship with any other actor would you show that/them with the aid of an arrow?

  7. 7.

    How does your collaboration with other actors provide benefit to your company? (in terms of Social, economic, environment aspects)

  8. 8.

    What will be the requirements for collaboration with other actors?

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    What is the possible area for collaboration opportunities with other actors?

  10. 10.

    What are the challenges that make it difficult for actors to have collaboration?

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    What are the areas that they could gain benefit from collaboration?

  • Collaborative business model for sustainable innovation in TWM scenario in Sweden

  1. 1.

    Have you ever thought about collaborative business model for sustainable innovation as a solution provider for multi-actors business environments for the actors in order to meet their values through further collaborations?

  2. 2.

    What is your opinion about this business model?

  3. 3.

    Do you think it could be a solution for textile waste management challenges in Sweden which is multi-actors model? If yes, why? If not, why?

  4. 4.

    What will be the challenges and enablers of its implementation?

  5. 5.

    What will be the opportunities brought by this business model?

  6. 6.

    What is your expectation from CBM for sustainable innovation?

  7. 7.

    What will be your organization main focus in collaborative business model for textile waste management? What will be your role and main activities? What will be your benefit from it?

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Chizaryfard, A., Samie, Y., Pal, R. (2018). New Textile Waste Management Through Collaborative Business Models for Sustainable Innovation. In: Muthu, S. (eds) Detox Fashion. Textile Science and Clothing Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4780-0_3

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