Policies supporting reuse, collective use and prolonged life-time of textiles

• In 2016 138 000 tonnes of new clothes and household textiles were put on the Swedishmarket (Statistics Sweden, 2017). The production of textile products causes significantenvironmental impacts. Business models engaged in reuse, collective use and prolongedlife-time of textiles therefore have a potential to contribute to reduced total textileconsumption and, as a consequence, reduced environmental impacts from textileproduction.Preceding work in Mistra Future Fashion (Watson et al, 2017) identified ten differentsupporting policy instruments for business models that extend active lifetimes ofgarments. The objective of this report is to select three of the previously identified policyinstruments and estimate the economic, environmental, social effects of these. The threepolicy instruments selected for further assessment were:- A wage subsidy earmarked for businesses that extend the active lifetime of textiles- A knowledge hub assisting businesses start up or transition to more circular models- Start-up/transition fund for business models/initiatives that extend the activelifetime of textiles.

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