The Product Lifetimes and the Environment committee would like to welcome articles from the PLATE2023 conference as well as original research and review articles as a special issue in the Journal of Resource, Conservation, and Recycling. Deadline for submissions is: 31 October 2023. Please see below for additional information including submission guidelines and topic areas. You can also find this …
It is clear that our future economic system will be to a large degree circular. What is not clear is how to get there. This special issue calls for papers that focus on how a circular economy approach (reduce, reuse, recycle) might be leveraged to mitigate EU dependencies from critical products, components, and raw materials across sensitive value chains (please see EU industrial strategy 2020).
This Special Issue seeks contributions that help fully articulate how clothing users extend the life of their clothes and address the problem of textile waste. We invite research studies and conceptual or theoretical papers that provide new understanding of clothing users as agents of change and how usership is fostered.
