Products kept in use
Repaired garments that can be used again.
How we measure the impact of repair
Counting repairs is not enough. Our methodology looks at what really changes when a garment stays in use.
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A repair is activity. Impact is what happens afterwards.
- Repair
- Use again
- Extend its life
- Displace a purchase
- Reduce impact
This relationship is not automatic. That is why the methodology considers the counterfactual scenario.
What we measure
Material kept in use
Kilograms of repaired textile products, without automatically calling them avoided waste.
New purchases displaced
New purchases that reasonably do not happen thanks to the repair.
Repair economy
Work, hours and income generated for professionals and workshops.
The question that changes the calculation.
If you had not been able to repair this item, what would you have done?
Examples of alternatives: the answer determines which impact we can attribute and which we cannot.
Not all data means the same thing.
A · Verified
Observed or confirmed data.
B · Measured
Information obtained from Still users and operations.
C · Estimated
External references and industry factors.
Our aim is to progressively replace estimates with our own verified data.
How we calculate potentially avoided emissions
Impact of the displaced new product
Repair + logistics + materials + packaging
Potentially avoided CO₂e
This estimate only makes sense when there is a reasonable basis to consider that a new purchase has been displaced.
We prefer a cautious figure to a spectacular one.
- We do not count several purchases for the same garment.
- We do not present external estimates as our own data.
- We do not confuse avoided emissions with our footprint.
Change is stitched too.
A system that learns from every repair
- What is repaired
- How much it weighs
- Which materials it needs
- What the user would have done
- How long it stays in use
- Which work it generates
These are the data the methodology proposes collecting to improve the model and move towards measurement based on real behaviour.
We repair what matters. We measure what changes.
Explore the full methodology and its sources.
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