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ClearCircular Product Practices for a Post-Plastic Transition
This study examines how designers can support a post-plastic transition by identifying circular product practices, combining design theory with practical action frameworks to define the competencies and strategies needed for responsible polymeric material use within circular economy models.
Regenerative Fashion Systems: Redefining Circularity in the Fashion and Textiles Industry
Researchers reviewed the limitations of circular fashion models and proposed a regenerative fashion systems framework that goes beyond waste reduction to actively restore biodiversity, rebuild soil health, and integrate nature-based solutions across design and supply chains using materials such as mycelium leather and algae-based fibers.
Upcycling Systems Design, Developing a Methodology through Design
This paper proposes a new methodology for upcycling systems design that bridges circular economy business models with sustainable material innovation, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of products by integrating ecological considerations early in the design process.
Design framework for circular and sustainable packaging design
Researchers developed a novel packaging design framework integrating circularity and sustainability (C&S) criteria using literature review, expert brainstorming, and field visits. The framework addresses conflicts between sustainability and functional requirements and provides practical iterative strategies for packaging designers.
Regenerative Approach to Design Sustainable Tourism Experiences for Aquatic Ecosystems
This review examines regenerative design approaches for sustainable tourism experiences in aquatic ecosystems, drawing on ongoing research and didactic activities at the School of Design and Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. The paper argues that hospitality spaces designed with regenerative principles can reconnect guests with nature while actively restoring aquatic ecosystems, shifting tourism from extractive to restorative practices.
Circularity in Practice: Review of Main Current Approaches and Strategic Propositions for an Efficient Circular Economy of Materials
This review proposes a structured framework for classifying circular economy strategies — including reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and biological cycles — and evaluates their current adoption and barriers to scaling toward genuinely circular material flows.
Research on Application of Environmental Protection Concept in Modern Product Design
This paper explores how principles of environmental sustainability are being integrated into modern product design, examining how green design concepts can reduce ecological impact while meeting consumer needs. The analysis calls for applying low-carbon, circular economy values throughout the product development process.
Recrafting textile futures: Caring and repairing as a way to design
This study examines the textile and clothing supply chain as an extractive linear system embedded in a growth-oriented economic model, and explores how caring and repairing practices can support a transition toward reparative, circular textile futures. The paper argues that eco-modern innovation alone is insufficient and that sustainable textile design requires repositioning toward longer time horizons and degrowth-aligned approaches.
Recirculation: A New Concept to Drive Innovation in Sustainable Product Design for Bio-Based Products
This paper introduces a 'recirculation' framework for designing bio-based products that maximizes resource efficiency and minimizes waste throughout a product's life cycle. While bio-based materials offer a sustainable alternative to petroleum plastics, the authors argue that sustainable design principles must be built in from the start to maximize their environmental benefit.
A Review of the Roots of Ecological Engineering and its Principles
This review traces the historical roots and guiding principles of ecological engineering, a multidisciplinary field focused on designing sustainable ecosystems and restoring degraded natural habitats. The study highlights how ecological engineering integrates scientific knowledge with practical applications to address environmental challenges including pollution and habitat loss.
The Right-to-repair Movement and Sustainable Design Implications: a Focus on Three Industrial Sectors
This paper is not about microplastics; it examines the right-to-repair movement across consumer electronics, biomedical devices, and the clothing industry, with recommendations for more repairable and sustainable product design.
Nature-Based Solution and Regenerative Circular System Design towards Agricultural Land Management Bioremediation: A Review
This review examines nature-based solutions and regenerative circular system design as approaches to agricultural land bioremediation in the context of Indonesia's post-pandemic recovery, situating them within a broader framework that also addresses microplastic pollution and other environmental stressors. Researchers found that integrating circular economy principles with ecological restoration strategies offers promise for sustainable agricultural land management.
Bio-based plastics in a circular economy: A review of recovery pathways and implications for product design
Researchers reviewed how bio-based plastics — made from renewable plant sources — can be recovered and recycled at end-of-life, finding that the feasibility of eight different recovery methods depends heavily not just on plastic chemistry but on how products are designed, and offering guidance for designers to improve recyclability.
The Persistence of Technology:
This study examined the repair movement as a social and environmental practice, exploring how repair cafes and online platforms frame fixing objects as a form of activism against capitalist consumption models and a pathway toward sustainability.
A review of nature-based solutions for resource recovery in cities
This review examines nature-based solutions for resource recovery in cities, focusing on technologies that use microorganisms and ecological processes to shift urban systems from linear resource sinks toward more circular and sustainable models.
Circular Plastics Economy: Redesigning Technology and Reimagining Society
This book examines the concept of a circular plastics economy, arguing that technical redesign of materials must be paired with societal transformation to address plastic waste at scale. The authors critique current approaches and propose a more integrated vision combining innovation with behavioral and governance change.
Circular Economy and Sustainable Rural Development
This review examines waste management challenges in rural communities worldwide and the application of circular economy principles to rural contexts, identifying barriers to sustainable resource use and recommending policy and community-level interventions to reduce rural waste generation and improve material recovery.
Leveraging Insights from Unique Artifacts for Creating Sustainable Products
This paper examines how the design principles found in unique historical artifacts can inspire sustainable manufacturing approaches within a circular economy. Designing products for longevity, repairability, and end-of-life recyclability can reduce plastic waste and the microplastics generated from product disposal.
Resource conservation by means of lightweight design and design for circularity—A concept for decision making in the early phase of product development
This paper developed a decision-making framework to identify synergies and conflicts between lightweight design and design for circularity in product development, helping manufacturers navigate trade-offs in resource conservation.
Rebirth: An Exploration of Circular Fashion
This review examines the concept of circular fashion as a response to fast fashion's unsustainable practices, critically evaluating how greenwashing has emerged as a mechanism to monetize eco-initiatives without genuine environmental benefit. The paper analyzes case studies of circular fashion brands and proposes criteria for distinguishing authentic circular economy practices from superficial marketing claims.
Redefining Ecological Engineering in the Context of Circular Economy and Sustainable Development
This conceptual paper proposed a redefined framework for ecological engineering grounded in circular economy principles, arguing that engineering interventions in natural systems should aim to close material loops and enhance ecosystem services rather than simply solving pollution problems after the fact.
Regenerative agriculture in Europe : An overview paper on the state of knowledge and innovation in Europe
This overview report examines the state of knowledge and innovation around regenerative agriculture (RegenAg) in Europe, comparing it to agroecology, conservation agriculture, and organic farming. The authors find that RegenAg is most distinctively defined by its outcomes rather than specific practices, and recommend establishing an EU-wide indicator system to measure those outcomes while treating RegenAg as a set of objectives rather than prescribed measures.
Strategies for Dealing with Substances of Concern in Product Design – a Review of Five Cases
This review examined design strategies for dealing with substances of concern in products, covering approaches to substitute, minimize, or eliminate hazardous chemicals throughout the product lifecycle. The authors identified regulatory frameworks and practical design tools to guide manufacturers toward safer material choices.
System innovation and life cycle thinking in packaging value chain: the circularity of plastics.
This paper examines the role of circular economy principles in reducing plastic packaging waste, noting that despite existing recycling systems, plastics remain pervasive environmental contaminants. The authors argue that redesigning packaging systems for recyclability and reducing over-packaging are essential steps to address microplastic pollution at its source.