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Position papers

New product priorities for Ecodesign for Sustainable Products

16 May 2023
A review on the draft study published by the Joint Research Center (JRC) The European Recycling Industry strongly welcomes the focus placed by the European Commission (EU COM) on sustainable production – for a wide range of products – through the...
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Handling & Sorting Specifications - For re-use and recycling of used textiles

06 September 2021
Textiles and clothing are essential to our everyday life. Over the last two decades, the clothing consumption has more than doubled, leading to a drastic increase of discarded textiles. The EU-wide obligation to separately collect textiles by 2025...
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EuRIC Updated Position on EPR Schemes for Textiles

02 February 2021
In 2020, the volume of separate collected textiles in the EU-27 was estimated to be between 1.6 and 2.5 million tons (MT). What is currently a self-financing system through revenues generated by the preparation for re-use and the marketing of seco...
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BIR and EuRIC Joint Statement: Second-hand clothing imports are presumed to be safe

20 April 2020
BIR and EuRIC would like to express concern about the restrictions issued by some countries to stop the import of second hand clothing based on the presumption that clothes coming from Europe or elsewhere may be contaminated with the coronavirus.
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EuRIC Position on EPR Schemes for Textiles

16 April 2020
Nowadays, our clothes are discarded and replaced by new items faster than ever before. According to a report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), Europeans have purchased more clothing for less money over recent years due to the fas...
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EuRIC calls for an ambitious Strategy on Textiles

18 December 2019
Textiles and clothing are essential to our everyday life. Over the last two decades, the textiles’ industry, in particular the development of ‘fast fashion’, has deeply changed the consumption patterns, in Europe and globally. These changes, roote...
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EuRIC launches EuRIC Textiles and elects Executive Committee

06 December 2019
The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) is proud to announce the creation of EuRIC Textiles and the election of its new Textiles Executive Committee. The Executive Committee was elected during a meeting held on 3 December 2019 in ...
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