The European Commission published on the 30th March the first of two circular economy packages to help reach the green deal objectives of lower resource consumption by improving the environmental sustainability of products placed on the EU market. As part of this package, the Commission published the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles.
This Dods latest report, written by our EU Political Intelligence team, outlines details of the EU Textile Strategy including actions to tackle fast fashion, microplastics in the environment, the export of textile waste, the social aspects of the textile industry and international cooperation among other actions and including initial political and stakeholder reactions.