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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation for textiles is coming. Is your business ready?
For fashion brands and retailers, these impending laws represent a challenge, but also an opportunity to innovate and lead in sustainability.
What is EPR?
EPR is an environmental policy where a producer’s responsibility for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle.
Producers could be manufacturers, importers, brand owners, retailers, distant sellers and foreign producers.
The inclusion of textiles into EPR schemes aims to improve recycling and reuse rates, and generate positive environmental change on a global scale via incentives and fees.
This webinar, in partnership with circular economy specialist Reconomy, discusses the current sustainability landscape in fashion’s textiles sector and everything you need to know about EPR.
Joined by high street retailer New Look, we cover ways that brands and retailers can prepare for this forthcoming legislation, while mitigating risks and managing rising costs.
We cover:
– Understanding textile EPR and its current legislation in the EU
– The importance of EPR for sustainability and the circular economy
– Challenges brands and retailers face and opportunities for innovation
– Best practices and successful strategies to prepare
– Future outlook on EPR legislation and market trends
Panellists:
– Sue Fairley, head of sourcing, sustainability and quality, New Look
– Aimee Campanella, development director – textiles EPR, Reconomy
Host:
– Graeme Moran, associate editor, Drapers
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