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> **Original source:** https://circle-economy.com/knowledge-hub/article/4379

Circular.fashion's mission is to promote circularity by overcoming three core challenges:

● Brands need to design fashion for circularity.

● Consumers need to be engaged in reusing and returning clothes for recycling.

● Sorters and recyclers need to have access to material information to identify clothing for resale, reuse, and closed-loop recycling.

In this direction, in addition to consultation, circular.fashion promotes two solutions:

\- The circular fashion system is an industry-connecting platform for all stakeholders to collaboratively realize a cradle-to-cradle-inspired circular economy for textiles. At the center of the circular.fashion system is circularity.ID®, which holds material and product data, care instructions, and take-back service offers, along with a product’s entire story. This ensures future reuse, reselling, and recycling at the highest possible level of sustainability. Through this system, data becomes accessible to stakeholders in the fashion ecosystem at any point in time to assess and handle products in a circular economy. The consumer is able to scan the circularity.ID® which can be a QR Code or NFC Tag via smartphone. At a garment’s end of life, the circularity.ID® enables sorters to find the best matching recycler. With this system circular.fashion makes sure that products of today become the resources of tomorrow.

\- The Circular Design Software supports fashion brands to design circular and sustainable products in a lean and efficient process. The Circular Design Software, containing the Circular Material Library and Circular Design Guidelines, provides fashion brands with knowledge, tools, and resources to create fully recyclable clothes.