4.7 Closing the loop: How your discarded clothes are getting a new life

The Science Basement Podcast

Let's take a journey into the afterlife of your closet. What happens to the clothes that do not go to the charity shops or second hand retailers? Who manages that waste and who is impacted by it? Find out the answers in this episode of the science basement as the hosts Rhiannon and Sujai speak to Anubhuti. Together we look at the ongoing research activities trying to transition the textile sector from a take-make-waste approach to a more circular approach involving reduce-reuse-recycle thinking. Anubhuti Bhatnagar has a DSc in Energy Engineering from Tampere University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University working on social impact assessment of textile waste management. Find her research and publications on https://research.aalto.fi/en/persons/anubhuti-bhatnagar. Information on her project is available https://trexproject.eu/ Read about all the good work happening in the EU on textile sector at https://textile-platform.eu/eu-projects. Find like-minded people looking to extend clothing life through https://www.conferencemanager.dk/participation-in-the-nordic-textile-collaboration/program