The Commission will force manufacturers to produce repairable and recyclable materials. The textile is concerned.
Smartphones whose batteries cannot be changed, clothes destroyed without ever having been worn, dishwashers that give up the ghost after a handful of years. Brussels has decided to tackle throwaways to favor the circular economy. The objective is twofold: to enable the European Union to reduce its imports – and its dependencies, on which the Covid crisis, then the war in Ukraine shone a harsh light -, but also to achieve more easily the difficult objective of carbon neutrality by 2050.It’s time to put an end to the “take, make, damage and throw away” model, so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy.sums up the Executive Vice-President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans.
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