According to the Commission communication of 30 March 2022 on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles (the Strategy), substantial changes are needed to move away from the currently prevailing linear way in which textile products are designed, produced, used and discarded, with a particular need to limit fast fashion. According to the Strategy’s vision for 2030, consumers benefit longer from high-quality affordable textiles. The Strategy underlines the importance of making producers responsible for the waste that their products create and refers to the establishment at Union level of harmonised extended producer responsibility rules for textiles with eco-modulation of fees. It states that the key objective of those rules is to create an economy for collection, sorting, re-use, preparing for re-use, and recycling of textiles, and to incentivise producers to design their products in a manner that respects circularity principles. To that end, it envisages that a significant share of contributions made by producers to extended producer responsibility schemes will be dedicated to waste prevention measures and preparing for re-use. The Strategy also supports the need for strengthened and more innovative approaches to sustainable management of biological resources to increase circularity and valorisation of food waste and re-use of bio-based textiles.
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