Sorting with Transparency (SWT): A Reformative and Innovative Social Ecosystem for Sorting, Grading and Re-purposing of Apparel

透明分类 (SWT)：用于服装分类、分级和重新利用的改革和创新社会生态系统

• 批准号: 548537-2019
• 负责人: Yates, Colin
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: College & Community Social Innovation Fund
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=701030
• 关键词: Sorting; Transparency; SWT; Reformative; Innovative

This research proposal has four objectives: 1) furthering the Social Benefit Program begun during our current CCSIF research program by developing new high-value jobs for newcomers and people who for various reasons are struggling in the regular labour market, through a legitimate and ethical employment platform that would train subject matter experts (SMEs) to sort and grade post-consumer fast-fashion textiles for re-purposing in other markets. In contrast with the new "green recovery-for-recycling" industry that is dependent upon poor working conditions and cheap labour, our intention is a sustainable program with a socio-economic focus that would build self-esteem, offer respect, and provide economic subsistence to persons who may not otherwise benefit from these circumstances; 2) designing a Textile Diversion Strategy for Societal Benefit which would take the form of an innovative post-consumer waste sorting, grading, and re-purposing (SG&R) methodology, with supporting technology, aimed at both the diversion of Western society's waste from domestic and global landfill, and the dumping of such waste in third-world countries such as the East African Countries (EAC), a practice detrimental to their indigenous economy, health, environment, and, more currently, their global trading status; 3) incorporating Intentional Design and Product Development that Impacts Community in the creation of innovative products from post-consumer textile waste through SG&R, such as automotive cotton shoddy, and high-and-low-value forms of biochar, which would use cotton shoddy dust and shredded textile waste as the feedstock. As part of this, the new products will be branded in such a way as to raise awareness of the social and environmental issues surrounding the purchase and disposal of fast-fashion; and 4) establishing a Social Enterprise that would sell and market the products developed from post-consumer textile waste through SG&R in order to support the sorting and grading platform and the sustainable employment and economic development opportunities it offers for the newly trained SMEs.

该研究提案有四个目标：1) 通过合法和道德的就业，为新移民和因各种原因在常规劳动力市场苦苦挣扎的人开发新的高价值工作，从而进一步推进我们当前 CCSIF 研究计划期间开始的社会福利计划该平台将培训主题专家（SME）对消费后快时尚纺织品进行分类和分级，以便在其他市场重新利用。与依赖恶劣工作条件和廉价劳动力的新“绿色回收再循环”行业相比，我们的目的是制定一个以社会经济为重点的可持续计划，以建立自尊、提供尊重并提供经济支持。无法从这些情况中受益的人的生存； 2) 设计一项社会效益纺织品转移战略，该战略将采用创新的消费后废物分类、分级和再利用（SG&R）方法以及支持技术的形式，旨在将西方社会的废物从国内转移到国外和全球垃圾填埋场，以及在东非国家（EAC）等第三世界国家倾倒此类废物，这种做法不利于其本土经济、健康、环境，更目前而言，不利于其全球交易状态； 3) 将影响社区的意向设计和产品开发纳入通过 SG&R 从消费后纺织废料中创造创新产品的过程中，例如汽车次充棉，以及使用次充棉粉尘的高价值和低价值形式的生物炭和切碎的纺织废料作为原料。作为其中的一部分，新产品将以这样的方式进行品牌宣传，以提高人们对围绕快时尚的购买和处置的社会和环境问题的认识； 4) 建立一家社会企业，通过 SG&R 销售和营销由消费后纺织废料开发的产品，以支持分拣和分级平台及其为新培训的中小企业提供的可持续就业和经济发展机会。