Italy publishes the Legislative Decree, 116/2020, establishing the separate collection obligation for textile waste.
The European Union adopts the ‘Sustainable Textiles Strategy’, turning the spotlight on a sector which, in the EU, accounts for the fourth highest negative impact on the environment and on climate change, and third highest for land and water use from a global life cycle perspective.
This Strategy is aimed at facilitating the transition to a circular economy in which products are designed to be more durable, reusable, repairable and recyclable, including through proper separate collection of urban textile waste.
The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) develops a first draft of the Decree establishing the EPR system for home textiles, clothing and footwear, which has already been submitted for stakeholders’ consultation.
The European Commission submits a proposal to revise the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC with an emphasis on textile and food waste, with the aim of guiding the actions of individual Member States towards harmonised management for these types of waste.
The ENVI Committee of the European Parliament adopted its position with 72 votes in favour, no votes against and three abstentions. As regards textile waste, MPs have included some non-domestic products, such as carpets and mattresses, in the list of products that fall under the Extended Producer Responsibility regime, also providing for the monitoring of exported used textiles. MPs also call for EU countries to establish EPR schemes 18 months after the Directive comes into force and to ensure the separate collection of textiles for reuse and recycling by 1 January 2025.
The Council of the EU has adopted its position (“general approach”) on the review aiming, said Alain Maron, Minister of Climate Transition, Environment, Energy and Participatory Democracy of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region “to prevent waste produced by fast fashion and facilitate reuse. Given that the food and textile sectors are first and fourth respectively in terms of resource intensity, today’s agreement represents a fundamental step towards a more sustainable and circular European economy.”
The Hungarian presidency of the EU Council has made one of its priorities to define, by 31 December 2024, a compromise text between Parliament and the Council on the Waste Framework Directive.
On both the European and national fronts, the legislator is therefore working to define a precise and timely regulatory framework on EPR in the textile sector aimed at:
Erion Textiles continues to assist Producers by representing a constantly updated point of reference available to companies not only on issues of regulatory evolution, but also for authoritatively expressing Producers’ positions to the Ministry and the European legislator for the purpose of defining the contents of the new Textile Decree.
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