Life cycle assessment of textiles

The textile industry faces major challenges, but also opportunities, to reduce its environmental impact and contribute to a more sustainable society. With the help of life cycle assessment, LCA, aspects such as material selection, improved manufacturing processes, resource efficiency and recycling can be evaluated.

RISE has extensive experience in conducting life cycle assessments of textile value chains, both in research and consulting assignments. RISE can assist with everything from defining goal and scope, data collection, environmental impact assessment and interpretation of results. The life cycle assessments can be carried out in collaboration with RISE experts in areas such as bio-based materials, textile recycling and textile production techniques. The result can be used for product development, creating environmental product declarations or formulating policy recommendations.

RISE closely follows and contributes to method development and raising the state of knowledge in life cycle assessment of textiles value chains, for example within the ongoing EU-funded research projects CISUTAC and tExtended. An example of a previous research project is Mistra Future Fashion.

RISE can also perform critical reviews of life cycle assessments and verify environmental product declarations (EPDs).

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