Sustainable management of uniforms at the Dutch Ministry of Defence

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A key challenge of any sustainable procurement project is to reach that difficult balance between economic, social and environmental concerns.

A key challenge of any sustainable procurement project is to reach that difficult balance between economic, social and environmental concerns. The video below shows a perfect example of it, for uniforms! The Dutch Ministry of Defence outsourced the circular management (environmental) of its uniforms to a Disability Enterprise (social), also generating revenues through the transformation of waste into new products (economic).