Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025)

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Articles in this Journal

Analyzing Durability and Failures of Workwear Rain Jackets

Re-Imagining Garment Cutting Waste

Can Promoting Fashion Innovativeness Move Traditional Luxury Consumers Toward More Sustainable Fashion Behaviours?

Environmental Impact factors for Apparel Products

Hyper-Local Recirculation of Second-hand Clothing Through Donation-Thrift Networks

Ecolabels in the Textile and Fashion Industry

Connecting transition design and everyday fashion practices

Perceptions of sacrifice in the pursuit of sufficient consumption

This study investigates the role of perceived sacrifice in the adoption of behaviours of sufficiency in clothing consumption. With the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and consumption to stay within planetary boundaries, this research explores...

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From Empty Shops to Vibrant Communities

Rapid and significant reductions in global carbon emissions are needed to remain within Earth’s limits. The construction and operation of buildings account for the largest share of the global consumption of raw materials, and they yield around 40% of...

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Behind the Stars

The rapid growth of e-commerce and technological advancements has amplified the production of electronic waste (E-waste). Refurbished products offer a sustainable alternative by extending product lifecycles, yet consumer behavior toward these product...

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How “Fast” is Fast Furniture?

This paper explores the emerging concept of fast furniture, a rapidly growing sector characterized by quick production, low costs, and short product life cycles. Despite its substantial environmental impact, fast furniture remains underexplored in ac...

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Not Just Luck

In this paper, we study second-hand shopping as an expertise that can be practiced. While second-hand markets are rapidly growing, consumers still find it difficult and challenging to purchase second-hand, as the shopping experience is messier, compl...

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No Product Lifetime!

Approximately 40% of new product introduction fail when entering the market. Thus valuable resources are spent producing products that never achieve a product lifetime with any users. Companies tend to remove products from their portfolio because of...

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Transformative and community-based participation in collaborative business model experimentation for urban upcycling

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish,...