Case studies and articles

Online platforms

Leasing, rental, pay per use

Payment per use

Durable and upgradable appliances

Miele appliances include many features that distinguish them as sustainable products.

Design for product attachment, emotional durability

Product upgrade

Electronics and Appliances

Fashion on demand supporting women in prison

Carcel collaborates with a Peruvian female prison to produce high quality alpaca sweatshirts and pants.

Customer dialogue, marketing

Joint product development

Modular bags with a long life

PACK BAGS focuses on creating modular bags that can easily be assembled or disassembled.

Design for disassembly

Design for modularity

Design for repair

Self-repair, spare part service

Product upgrade

Sale of exchangeable parts

Leasing, rental, pay per use

Circular Business

The Nine Steps Towards a Circular Business² is a book providing comprehensive information on transitioning a company to the circular economy.

Crowd-based services

Subscription-based services

Peer to peer sharing

Research & Commercial Services

Modular, durable baby strollers

Bugaboo is a manufacturer of prams and strollers.

Sale of exchangeable parts

Design for modularity

Design for product attachment, emotional durability

Personal Products and Services

Alpine footwear with an extended lifecycle

HANWAG offers outdoor alpine footwear with purposefully high quality to extend the lifecycle of their products.

Self-repair, spare part service

Alternative bio-based materials and inputs

A kids brand that educates on how to make the most of their products

REIMA is a Swedish kids wear brand that has a number of post-consumer waste management initiatives in operation.

Self-repair, spare part service

Designing clothes for durability

Tom Cridland's 30 Year Collection features sweatshirts, t-shirts, shirts and jackets handcrafted out of Italian cotton, wool and cashmere.

Design for resource efficiency

Durable, resource efficient jeans

Kings of Indigo (K.O.I) makes quality denim clothing that are designed to last long. The company

Design for product attachment, emotional durability

Customer dialogue, marketing

Brand strategies for long life

ARELA is a lifestyle brand, which launched a sustainability concept called "For Good".

Takeback programmes

Design for minimal waste

Own brand second-hand sale

Open loop high value mechanical recycling (Textiles specific)

Advocacy for circular economy policy

Circular Business Models for the built environment

This research jointly written by Arup and BAM explores ways Circular Business Models (CBMs) would provide added benefits throughout the value chain in construction.

Dialogue with internal stakeholders

Training on the circular economy

Design for minimal waste