Producers should be responsible for setting up collection systems for the collection of all used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products and for ensuring that they are subsequently subject to sorting for re-use, preparing for re-use, and recycling to maximise the availability of second-hand clothing and footwear and to reduce the volumes of textiles for types of waste treatment that are lower in the waste hierarchy. Ensuring that textile products can be and are used and re-used for longer is the most effective way to significantly reduce their impact on the climate and the environment. This should also enable sustainable and circular business models such as re-use, renting and repair, take-back services and second-hand retail to create new green quality jobs and cost-saving opportunities for citizens. Making producers responsible for the waste that their products create is essential to decouple waste textile generation from growth in the sector. Producers should also be responsible for recycling, in particular prioritising the scaling up of fibre-to-fibre recycling, and other recovery operations and disposal.
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