Circularizing the waste of a ready-to-wear brand

Context

A French brand of affordable luxury ready-to-wear clothing wants to evaluate and value its waste throughout its value chain in a circular approach

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Issues

The company wants to take stock and identify opportunities for improvement in terms of circular economy regarding its waste - textile, clothing and supplies - across its value chain, in order to:

• reduce storage and degradation of scrap in thecentral warehouse
• protect the brand's reputation against defective clothing

Methodology

We accompanied the company in : 

• The identification of waste typologies and their origin and end-of-life flows
• Identification of the issues related to this waste and the initiatives already in place
• Proposal of several action levers and corresponding opportunities
• Sharing of a benchmark of pioneering solutions in terms of valorization of these fashion scraps