Created as part of the SCIRT project, The True Cost Calculator is a self-assessment tool, developed to empower fashion professionals in efficiently measuring, comparing, and minimizing the environmental and social impact of garments across their lifecycle. It builds upon and enhances existing frameworks for evaluating the environmental and social costs of textiles. One of the most important features of the True Cost Calculator is its integration of financial, environmental, and social dimensions, monetizing the external costs associated with the lifecycle of clothing.

This deliverable goes into details about the objectives of thread spinning for the demo brands and presents the results of the trials of spinning using fibre from recycled textiles.

TU Wien focuses on removing elastane from textiles containing this polymer. In order to perform tests on separate elastane from textiles, procurement of pure elastane was necessary. The supply of pure elastane in weaved or yarn form from project partners or external industrial partners was not feasible. Therefore, TU Wien produced pure elastane via enzymatic hydrolysis of a viscose/elastane textile.

The objective of this deliverable is to explore possible alternatives for commonly used primary materials, with a focus on local production (EU based), circularity (compatible with the recycled fibre), low impact (environmental performance) and availability and possibilities to scale (economic potential).

This deliverable aims to provide an inspiring vision document on circular fashion and a transition roadmap on how this vision can be achieved, resulting from work performed in the project. This report serves as input to policy recommendations that will be further elaborated at a later stage in the project.

This deliverable is the first step of the SCIRT project and aims to place the project’s objectives in the context of the global textile industry from different perspectives

This deliverable provides an overview of the environmental and social impacts generated by the SCIRT demonstrator products to be prototyped, in the current textile system.

This deliverable examines whether the six representative garment types defined for prototyping under WP3 are representative of the main technological, environmental and business challenges in the textiles system (i.e. fibre compositions, technical requirements like dismantling, use of chemicals, business models, waste treatment) and cover the key product segments in the apparel sector.