REPORT: "How ecodesign can make our textiles circular"
The latest ECOS Report on textiles, “Durable, repairable and mainstream. How ecodesign can make our textiles circular” concludes that mandatory ecodesign requirements for textiles and textile products are an essential tool to reduce the environmental impacts of the textiles sector and make the industry circular. Before they are put on the market, clothes should comply with concrete requirements for minimum lifetimes, durability, reusability, repairability and recyclability, as well as prevent the presence of hazardous and toxic chemicals, and limit microplastics release at all stages.
Today’s fashion is faster and faster – and keeps on accelerating at breakneck speed. Between 2000 and 2015, in only 15 years, the amount of clothes produced in the world doubled, with EU households spending €527.9 billion on clothes and textile products every year.