Benefits of circular
Business growth
Cost reduction
Compliance to legislation
Customer loyalty
Zero waste
Sustainability
Our services unleashing your recommence potential
TRADE IN: Minimizing your returns, optimizing your returns process efficiency and deciding on how to handle damaged returned items
RENEWAL: Reworking your products from unsellable to sellable
RESALE: Selling your reworked products as second life inventory
Circular path
In our state-of-the-art facilities, we offer the complete renewal process, for maximum recovery and minimum environmental impact.
Collection
Enable your customers to trade in their items for resale or recycling
Sorting & grading
All received products are physically sorted into several categories for further processing
Cleaning
All goods are cleaned using the most suitable technology for each type of products
Repairing
Restoring items to a higher condition level for future resale
Quality assurance
Multiple checkpoints throughout the whole process resulting in certified renewed products
Photography
Detailed visualisation of renewed products for efficient resale process
Packaging
Renewal certification labels and environmental-friendly packaging
Resale
Offering the products the second-life path, online or through physical stores
Sustainable reuse
Minimizing waste for any unsellable items through recycling, downcycling or upcycling
About the Renewal Workshop
We deliver extensive renewal and recommerce services for your returned apparel and other textile products from your end-customers or retail stores. The renewal system, which we have created and keep constantly improving, enables you to restore products so they could be resold, generating new revenue opportunities for your brand. Moreover, you reduce your overall pollution, typically created from “waste” streams, and enable long-term new production reduction to offset carbon.
Ready to recommerce your products?
The potential for renewal to make a meaningful difference in the climate crisis is real. Our most recent research demonstrates that brands can achieve an average reduction of 51.5% in carbon emissions by renewing an existing product instead of producing a new one.
Bleckmann acquired The Renewal Workshop
In early 2022, we acquired The Renewal Workshop as part of our strategy to develop a fully circular supply chain proposition for our fashion and lifestyle clients. The acquisition of The Renewal Workshop enabled us to enhance our service portfolio with extensive collection, renewal and recommerce services. The comprehensive Renewal System truly complements our efforts to offer sustainable solutions to our clients.
Read the press releaseIn our vision of the future, logistics will become the backbone of a circular economy for fashion and lifestyle products. Our solutions will gradually be incorporated into a new all-in-one renewal and logistics offering.
Leading Circular 2023
Fashion companies are being asked to make real changes in how they operate to become more eco-friendly, like recycling and reducing waste. Besides, they're encouraged to get rid of old habits and work with consumers and other businesses to make the fashion industry better for the environment.
Find out more in our latest Leading Circular report on scaling up fashion's zero-waste transition!
Is your brand ready for mandatory textile circularity?
The European Union is introducing a broad range of policy measures that aim to reduce the environmental footprint of the European textile industry. The strategy will directly affect various actors across the sector.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most apparel and textile-based products sourced from returns, overstock, or take-back programs are suitable, provided they are structurally sound. For example, damaged, dirty, outdated, or unsold items can be renewed and prepared for second-life sales.
The Renewal Workshop delivers a full end-to-end renewal journey – from trade-in programs and collection to sorting and grading, cleaning, repairs, quality assurance, photography, sustainable packaging, resale enablement, and recycling or repurposing of unsellable items.
Renewing products instead of producing new items can significantly reduce carbon emissions while avoiding waste by extending product lifetimes. This is in line with EU-wide and national waste reduction and circularity targets, supporting proactive regulatory compliance.
Items are assessed according to brand-specific guidelines outlining eligible styles, quality standards, and price points. Items are then repaired or cleaned as required, graded and allocated to the appropriate sales channel, and labelled or barcoded with a unique ID when needed.
Yes. The Renewal Workshop model is modular and scalable, allowing brands of all sizes to start with defined volumes and expand as their circular programs grow.
By extending product lifetimes and ensuring responsible end-of-life processing, the Renewal Workshop enables brands to pursue proactive compliance with EU requirements for waste reduction, circularity, and transparency.
Brands that implement circularity initiatives can benefit from a brand perception and awareness boost: first, they can recruit a wider range of customers through resale channels.[1] Second, they can build affinity among shoppers looking for more sustainable options.[2] In addition, circular solutions let you keep circular value within your own brand ecosystem, rather than seeing it lost to third-party resale platforms.
[1] Moizant, F. et al. (2025) Resale’s next chapter: How fashion and luxury brands can win in the secondhand market, BCG Global. Available at: https://www.bcg.com/publicatio... (Accessed: 08 December 2025)
[2] With a new sustainability behaviour report, Zalando calls for collective action
(2025) Zalando Corporate Website. Available at: https://corporate.zalando.com/... (Accessed: 08 December 2025).
Yes. With Bleckmann, you can manage returns from all channels – e-commerce, marketplaces, and physical stores – through one branded portal and backend. Customers can return in-store, via PUDO/lockers, home pick-up, or postal drop-off. You also gain a unified overview of status, inventory disposition, and refund rules across every channel.
Yes. Extending product life, renewing items, and reusing materials significantly reduces emissions compared with producing new items. A study by Bleckmann’s Renewal Workshop showed that, for certain garment types, brands can achieve an average reduction of 51.5% carbon emissions by implementing circular practices.
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