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Case study – Cucumber Clothing: ‘Try before you buy’ – using circular business models to connect with customers

Snapshot Cucumber Clothing, a sustainable female leisure and sleepwear brand, saw an opportunity to diversify their offer...

Case study – Phoebe English: Pioneering a fully circular, closed-loop fashion studio

Snapshot Phoebe English, a London-based sustainable fashion studio, has seen first-hand the volume of textile waste generated...

Case study – KAPDAA – The Offcut Company: Giving new life to textile waste

Snapshot KAPDAA – The Offcut Company turns brands’ off-cut fabrics into beautiful accessories. They saw how few solutions...

Case study – Birdsong: Extending the lifetime of garments through a new repair service

Snapshot Birdsong is a sustainable fashion studio based in East London. They decided to take their environmental ethos one...

Case study – THRIFT+ – Launching a new recycling Thrift+ bag

Snapshot Thrift+ is an online platform for second-hand shopping and resale. They saw first-hand how much textile waste is...

Podcast – The circular economy playbook, episode 14: Bringing the refill store to your door with Ella Shone

In this episode Ali and Jean speak to Ella Shone, founder of zero waste, plastic-free grocery shopping and refill service Topup...

Podcast – The circular economy playbook, episode 13: Tackling the takeaway problem with Safia Qureshi

In this episode Ali and Lamia speak to Safia Qureshi, founder of returnable takeaway packaging service CLUBZERØ. Ali and...

Podcast – The circular economy playbook, episode 12: When clothing and brands are built to last – Duncan Money

In this episode, Ali and Hannah speak to Duncan Money, Head of Social and Environmental Impact at the cycling apparel and...

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Case study – ReLondon Repair Week 2020: bringing together businesses, boroughs and communities to inspire and enable Londoners to repair more stuff

Snapshot When 69% of Londoners told us that they’d fix more of their things if only they knew how – and almost half of...

Case study – Circular Fashion Fast Forward: FARFETCH’s journey to embracing circular economy business models

In 2018, leading UK fashion brands decided it was time to shake things up. They signed up to ‘Circular Fashion Fast Forward’,...

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