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Redesign one style so its materials can be recovered
A brand asks you to take one existing style — pick a real one you know, for example a two-colour polyester fleece jacket or a cotton-elastane legging — and return a revised specification that can be recovered at end of life without losing the performance the customer buys it for.
Who this is for: Product developers, designers, sustainability staff and merchandisers who sign off specifications.
What you produce: A one-page revised specification plus a short note on what you changed, what you refused to change and why.
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Task 1
List every material and component in the style as it is made today: face fabric, lining, interlining, thread, zip, labels, trims, coatings and prints.
What a good answer contains: A good answer names fibre content and component material for each line, not just 'trims'. It flags the items whose material is unknown, because unknown material is itself a recovery problem.
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Task 2
Say which recovery route each material could realistically take today — mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, reuse, repair, or none — and where the style blocks that route.
What a good answer contains: A good answer separates what is technically possible from what collection and sorting systems actually do at scale today, and names blends, bonded layers, coatings and mixed-material trims as the usual blockers.
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Task 3
Propose the changes you would make, and state the cost, performance or durability consequence of each one.
What a good answer contains: A good answer accepts trade-offs out loud: mono-material construction may change hand feel or cost; removable trims add an operation. It does not claim a change is free.
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Task 4
Write the claim you would let marketing make about the revised style, and the claim you would refuse.
What a good answer contains: A good answer keeps the claim to what is evidenced — 'designed for mechanical recycling where collection exists' — and refuses unverifiable claims such as 'fully circular' or 'zero waste'.
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