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CONTENTS

Foreword .........................................................................................................................................................................ii
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................................ii

List of Figures and Tables ............................................................................................................................................... iii

Case Study 1 – Toronto Tool Library and Sharing Depot ................................................................................................1
Case Study 2 – London: The Library of Things ...............................................................................................................4

Case Study 3 – Delhi: From worn-out /discarded textiles to premium ware ..............................................................19

Case Study 4 – Munich: Halle 2 second-hand store as a hotspot of the
local circular economy ...........................................................................................................................................24

Case Study 5 – Sustainable sharing platform and facility for urban
consumers ..............................................................................................................................................................29

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Figure 1: Illustration of different types of economy (Ministry of the Environment, 2016) ...........................................4
Figure 2: The initial experiment of the Library of Things .............................................................................................11
Figure 3: The demonstrator phase of the Library of Things ........................................................................................12
Figure 4: Smart borrowing kiosk ...................................................................................................................................13
Figure 5: The Library of Things General Stakeholder System Map (Ameli, 2017) .......................................................14
Figure 6: Examples of discarded textiles ......................................................................................................................20
Figure 7: Examples of Kantha of West Bengal ..............................................................................................................21
Figure 8: Gabbas of Kashmir .........................................................................................................................................22
Figure 9: Smart 24/7 sharing facility, tool library service and more comprehensive local sharing platform..............31

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