Obligate textile producers to collect, classify and recycle textile and clothing waste.
Meet annual targets for collecting and recycling textiles and clothing waste.
Provide information on their products’ environmental performance, including durability, reparability, and recyclability.
Measures to end the wasteful and environmentally harmful practice of destroying unsold consumer products.
The Waste Framework Directive sets the basic concepts and definitions related to waste management, including definitions of waste, recycling and recovery.
REQUIREMENTS
Setting waste reduction targets: This creates a clear goal for waste reduction and motivates all involved.
Extended Producer Responsibility: Producers take financial and operational responsibility for managing waste from their products, incentivizing them to design and produce less wasteful items.
Increased separate collection of waste: By 2025, at least 55% of municipal waste should be collected separately, facilitating efficient recycling and composting. These efforts will significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfills.
WHO IS AFFECTED?
Textile and apparel producers in the EU.
Textile and apparel importers in the EU.
Textile and apparel sellers in the EU.
CiMS
Prevent: Recovo's SaaS for Circularity reduces the gap between purchased and surplus materials. Due to a machine learning algorithm, fashion brands can predict future textile waste through their historic purchases and leftover garments, creating recommendations for future material acquisitions, and promoting optimised purchasing decisions and waste reduction.
Reuse: The SaaS sets internal reusing objectives.
MARKETPLACE
Reuse: Through deadstock fabrics, fashion brands can both reduce textile overproduction and get benefit from their surplus.
RECYCLING
Downcycle Recycling: Transform into fill.
Textile Upcycle Recycling: Transform old garments into thread.
Furniture Upcycle Recycling: Transform old garments into other textiles products, such as furniture, shopping bags...
