Resíduos têxteis como matéria-prima no design de produtos em empresas da economia criativa e circular

Abstract

This study describes the results of a research on the design of products with textile waste as raw material in Brazilian small and micro-enterprises of the creative and circular economy. The qualitative research was supported by a narrative review of the literature and field research, in which the techniques of document analysis and semi-structured interviews were used, consisting of a form and a questionnaire. The general objective is to describe the product development processes in companies that use textile waste as their main raw material, discussing challenges inherent to the reuse of this material. For this, the population formed by entrepreneurs responsible for the creation of the products was elected. The sample consisted of eleven business people who are specialists in their areas of expertise. The results of the document analysis, compared with the answers of the interviews, resulted in nine categories. The categorization and synthesis processes are described in detail in the Results section. From the categorizations of the documentary analysis and the answers to the interviews, the list of topics that were relevant to the sample was obtained. This made it possible to organize the results and synthesize them, reaching three main categories of analysis: a) product design; b) creative and circular economy; and c) product life cycle and reuse of materials. From the analysis, it can be said that these cover the basic factors for the development of sustainable products that have textile waste as the main raw material.