What role do regulations play in your strategy?
Due to new, more demanding regulations, the legislation will playa a central in the strategy.
The EU Commission intends to set mandatory for re-use, as well as for recycling textile waste. More specific targets are to be set in the context of the reform of EU legislation in 2024.
The proposal for a Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products (ESPR) addresses product design, which determines up to 80% of a product’s lifecycle environmental impact.
In addition to setting requirements on how products should be made, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) is also a framework to set requirements to provide information on the environmental sustainability of products. Depending on the product concerned, this can include information on energy use, recycled content, presence of substances of concern, durability, reparability, including a reparability score, spare part availability and recyclability.