Measuring impact, digitising supply chains: A Material Impact Tool for the circular textiles economy by RoundRack and The Royal College of Art

衡量影响、数字化供应链：RoundRack 和皇家艺术学院针对循环纺织经济的材料影响工具

• 批准号: 10027500
• 金额: $ 9.54万
• 依托单位: ROUNDRACK LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10027500
• 关键词: Measuring; impact; digitising; supply; chains

GHGs from the global fashion industry will be nearly double the level required to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming by 2030 (McKinsey,2020). With 70% coming from upstream activities, particularly energy-intensive raw material production (McKinsey, 2020), a fundamental shift is required in how textiles are produced.The market of alternative, 'next-generation' materials designed from waste and bio-engineering is nascent but growing rapidly. These materials reduce reliance on energy-intensive agriculture and are designed specifically to build and support a circular textiles economy. However, the adoption of such materials in the industry remains low (McKinsey,2019) with barriers including cost, lack of material information and operational challenges of integrating new suppliers.In response, Roundrack has developed an innovative, collaborative platform that addresses these barriers and creates one 'source of truth' for all stakeholders across the supply chain, from sourcing through to manufacture, streamlining and incentivising the integration of next-generation materials.This project is a collaboration between Roundrack and The Royal College of Art, alongside selected pilot trial partners and potential future customers, to develop understanding of the commercial case for adoption of circular, next-generation materials, and validate additional platform capabilities in preparation for market-entry.

到 2030 年，全球时尚行业产生的温室气体排放量将几乎是将气温上升控制在 1.5 度之内所需水平的两倍（麦肯锡，2020）。 70% 来自上游活动，特别是能源密集型原材料生产（麦肯锡，2020 年），因此需要对纺织品的生产方式进行根本性转变。由废物和生物工程设计的替代“下一代”材料市场正处于萌芽阶段，但发展迅速。这些材料减少了对能源密集型农业的依赖，专为建设和支持循环纺织经济而设计。然而，此类材料在行业中的采用率仍然很低（麦肯锡，2019），其障碍包括成本、缺乏材料信息以及整合新供应商的运营挑战。作为回应，Roundrack 开发了一个创新的协作平台来解决这些障碍和为整个供应链中的所有利益相关者创建一个“真实来源”，从采购到制造，简化和激励下一代材料的集成。该项目是 Roundrack 和皇家艺术学院之间的合作项目，同时还进行了选定的试点试验合作伙伴和潜在的未来客户，了解采用循环下一代材料的商业案例，并验证额外的平台功能，为进入市场做好准备。