Re-Viste, the brand with which companies in the textile sector will promote circular waste management

Jane Anderson
Jane Anderson
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The Association for the Management of Textile and Footwear Waste, formed by Decathlon, El Corte Inglés, H&M, Ikea, Inditex, Kiabi, Mango, Primark, Sprinter/JD and Tendamhas recently presented its new brand. Now under the name Re-Dress The Collective System of Extended Producer Responsibility (SCRAP) will operate, with which it seeks to move towards a circular model through the correct management of waste from the textile and footwear sector.
The name and corporate image have been worked on together with the Harmon consulting firm.

The project responds to the Extended Producer Responsibility contemplated in the law

The Association, officially established last March, aspires to improve waste management in the industry. It represents the first union of Spanish retail companies in fashion, footwear, sports and home textiles to comply with the Extended Producer Responsibility, included in Law 7/2022, of April 8, on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy .

Among other things, this rule establishes the obligation for local entities to separately manage the flow of textile waste from the rest of municipal waste; as well as the responsibility of textile and footwear brands to manage their products after their useful life.

In this regard, Re-Viste will launch a pilot test which will begin in April 2025 and will allow the effectiveness and operability of the SCRAP system to be evaluated. The project aims to analyze various options for textile collection and involve all the agents in the chain: producers, city councils, local entities, recyclers and consumers.

A new textile waste management system

As Re-Viste points out, it will be launched in six representative municipalities of the different sociodemographic environments: two urban, two rural and two semi-urban, with a total population of approximately 300,000 inhabitants.

Thus, as they explain, the collection routes will include specific containers on public roads and in municipal clean points; as well as collection points in private spaces such as shopping centers, stores, schools and parishes. This will allow the collection network to be expanded to different environments and facilitate citizen participation.

The collected textile products will be transported to classification plants, where they will be evaluated following the principle of waste hierarchy. Items in good condition will be sent to the sale in second hand stores; while those that cannot be reused will be classified based on their composition to favor their recycling.

This pilot test is intended to be carried out for at least one year. At the end, a recommendations guide and good practices aimed at offering tools and advice to local entities, so that they can successfully implement the selective collection of textiles in their territories.

The system we are creating will not only facilitate textile management, but will also promote a sustainable model that involves all actors in the value chain.“commented Juan Ramón Meléndez, General Director of Re-Viste, in a statement. “Collaboration and participation are key to making the textile circular economy effective, allowing each person and company to contribute to a more efficient and innovative future.”.

The project will be supervised by the Monitoring Committee, made up of the Textile Waste Working Group of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and Re-Viste.