System for a reuse industry - a transition pathway
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| Coordinator | IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 000 000 |
| Project duration | November 2021 - November 2025 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Circular and biobased economy |
| Call | Increased resource efficiency for a circular industry |
Important results from the project
The project´s objective was met very well: To result in new knowledge about what conditions for reuse the current system provides. To research and develop proposals for how systems for reuse can be created, improved and scaled up to the norm. As well as being an arena for collaboration, inspiration and development for participating actors. As part of researching scaling up, future scenarios and tools were developed for how these can be used to explore, develop or evaluate measures.
Expected long term effects
Usereuse will hopefully, through new knowledge bases, future scenarios, policy briefs with recommendations and the co-creation processes that have brought stakeholders together, lead to: development of current operations and solutions, decisions that strengthen the conditions for reuse to become the norm and for reuse to be included in community planning. The lifespan of products has increased, the amount of waste has been reduced and changed value chains create new companies and jobs.
Approach and implementation
Usereuse researched the conditions for users and actors to reuse - through data collection, surveys, interviews, workshop. A data analysis of the potential for reuse in the textile flow was developed. In a series of co-creation workshops, 4 future scenarios for how reuse could work in 2035 were developed together with stakeholders. In Reuselabs, action proposals were tried out and formulated together with actors and decision makers into a roadmap. Collaboration and co-creation were appreciated.