• Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences 

      Sigaard, Anna Schytte; Laitala, Kirsi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Textile fibers have become a major issue in the debate on sustainable fashion and clothing consumption. While consumers are encouraged to choose more sustainable and circular textile materials, studies have indicated ...
    • The plastic elephant. Overproduction and synthetic fibres in sustainable textile strategies 

      Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak; Sigaard, Anna Schytte; Tobiasson, Tone Skårdal; Gleisberg, Lea (SIFO project report;5-2023, Report, 2023)
      In this report, we examine national, international and corporate strategies for sustainable textiles to understand if and how they embrace the increased production volumes based on synthetic materials, which can be referred ...
    • Reducing Plastic in Consumer Goods: Opportunities for Coarser Wool 

      Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Sigaard, Anna Schytte; Broda, Jan; Rom, Monika; Kobiela-Mendrek, Katarzyna (Fibers;Volume 11 / Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Production and use of plastic products have drastically increased during the past decades and their environmental impacts are increasingly spotlighted. At the same time, coarse wool, a by-product of meat and dairy production, ...
    • Want Not, Waste Not: Preliminary findings 

      Sigaard, Anna Schytte (SIFO notat;2-2023, Report, 2023)
      This project note presents preliminary findings from a PhD project looking into textile waste from Norwegian households. 28 households collected textiles that they would have otherwise discarded for a period of six months. ...
    • WOOLUME: Mapping the market for acoustic and sound absorbing products made of wool 

      Sigaard, Anna Schytte; Haugrønning, Vilde (Report;9-2021, Report, 2021)
      This report is the first deliverable from work package 2 of the WOOLUME project. The main goal of WOOLUME is to explore different ways of using wool from Polish Mountain Sheep to achieve better utilisation of resources and ...
    • WOOLUME: Potential new products from vacant wool 

      Sigaard, Anna Schytte; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad (Report;18-2021, Report, 2021)
      This report gives an overview of the market for alternative wool products with the perceived potential to be made using vacant wool. The work is based on a desktop study and interviews with manufacturers and distributors, ...