Introduction | Becoming People & Planet Positive | Stakeholder engagement | Sustainability governance | SDG index Healthy & sustainable living - Our circularity agenda - Our climate agenda - Regenerating resources - Fair & equal - IWAY FY23 key activities Aiming to design all products with circular capabilities Guided by the Circular Product Design Making it easy to Principles, we strive to design products maintain furniture from the very beginning to be reused, through product design refurbished, remanufactured and/or recycled to extend their lifespan as long as possible. Products are also material Piloting a start-up for recycling banks for the future, meaning they can be down and feathers taken apart and recycled when they are no This year, we piloted a new longer functioning. initiative in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands that encourages our customers to bring back products 昀椀lled with down and feathers, that are no longer being used, for recycling The 昀椀rst step to ensuring products last into GULKAVLE pillows and longer is to enable customers to care for their products throughout the time they FJÄLLBRÄCKA duvets. own them. Maintaining large furniture pieces with textile surfaces can be challenging. In FY23, we introduced several big furniture pieces with removable and machine washable fabric covers, such as the KLEPPSTAD bed frame, PERSBOL armchair, SAGESUND upholstered bed and STRANDMON slipcover. By introducing more products with removable and washable fabric covers, we make it easier for customers to care for and maintain their products. 18 - IKEA SUSTAINABILITY REPORT FY23