4.5. Circular economy in the textile industry
Within the CE concept, products from the textile industry could be subjected to various lifetime extension strategies including, but not limited to, sharing, second-hand reusing, and remanufacturing. These strategies offer interesting prospects to preserve resources, reduce cost, mitigate production-related emissions and wastes, and create new job openings. All those benefits would have a global impact considering the wide implementation of outsourcing strategies in this industry and its global production networks [214,215].
Overall, introducing CE principles in the textile industry, and in most manufacturing industries for that matter, would induce more sustainability in this sector by keeping ...
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