Tag: EU Textiles Strategy

• 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.

• Durable, Repairable and Mainstream – Let’s slow down and make our textiles circular

  The environmental impacts of the textile sector are growing by the minute. Unless we slow down, our planet will become the ultimate fashion victim. On 30 March, the European Union is releasing a dedicated EU Strategy on Textiles, meant to allow a shift to a climate-neutral circular economy. This will require an integrated, multi-faceted approach: while policymakers make sustainable products the norm in the EU, the industry will need to shift its business models to operate within planetary boundaries.