The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report "Extended Producer Responsibility for Textiles in Selected Jurisdictions."
This report, prepared by staff of the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress, surveys jurisdictions that have or are in the process of adopting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) rules specifically for textiles as well as jurisdictions that have special textile waste requirements.
The polluter pays principle is a well-established international law and climate regulation concept. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations are requirements put on producers of certain products to manage, organize, or pay for the pollution caused by a product throughout its life cycle; they can therefore be seen as an expansion of the polluter pays principle. Jurisdictions have implemented these regulations for a number of products considered harmful
to the environment, textiles being one of them.
With respect to the textile industry, textile waste continues to be considered a climate risk, and “fast fashion” has created increasing amounts of textile waste that are either placed in landfills or incinerated. EPR textile schemes are set up to remedy this by creating a financial incentive for the manufacturer and the importer of textiles to develop a market for recycled textiles as well as a system for the collection and sorting of textile waste.
Read the report here.
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