Creating a greener textiles sector
The Strategy lays out a forward-looking set of actions:
- Set design requirements for textiles to make them last longer, easier to repair and recycle
- Introduce clearer information on textiles and a digital product passport
- Empower consumers and tackle greenwashing by ensuring the accuracy of companies’ green claims
- Stop overproduction and overconsumption, and discourage the destruction of unsold or returned textiles
- Harmonise EU Extender Producer Responsibility rules for textiles and economic incentives to make products more sustainable
- Address the unintentional release of microplastics from synthetic textiles
- Address the challenges from the export of textile waste adopt an EU Toolbox against counterfeiting by 2023
- Publish a transition pathway by the end of 2022 - an action plan for actors in the textiles ecosystem to successfully achieve the green and digital transitions and increase its resilience).
Official website: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/strategy/textiles-strategy_en
