Tag: circular textiles

• Ecodesign requirements for footwear

  In our joint letter to the European Commission, we express concern that addressing ‘textiles and footwear’ in a single product group under the EU's new ecodesign rules (ESPR) will focus on developing ecodesign requirements for apparel, considerably delaying specific requirements for footwear. Footwear must be a priority product group in the ESPR work plan and we need a preliminary study on ecodesign requirements specifically for footwear as quickly as possible.

• Policy recommendations for green and social ambition in EU textiles policies

  The EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles adopted in 2022 and its complementary parliamentary resolution represented a landmark moment on the road to more accountability in the textile sector. At the same time, it fell short on ambition. This is why in this new legislative cycle, policymakers must continue to build a fair and sustainable sector.

• Green and social ambition in EU textiles policy

  Policymakers must further build on the 2022 Textile Strategy and continue to develop and implement environmental and social justice in a fair and sustainable textiles sector. Together with other leading NGOs, we lay out the ambition needed, centred around three questions: What’s in my clothes? Who made my clothes? How my clothes are sold?

• EU Textile Strategy: what the Parliament should include to make sustainable textile products the norm

  ECOS participated in the S&D ENVI Seminar title "Sustainable textiles: Making fast fashion out of fashion", where we illustrated how to move to sustainable production and the use of textiles. To ensure circularity in the sector, ECOS and 6 other organisations propose a list of 12 actions that the European Parliament should consider for the Textiles Strategy to succeed.