11 Amendments of Achille VARIATI related to 2022/2171(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas more than 15 kilograms of textile waste is generated per person in Europe.1a __________________ 1a Mckinsey- "Scaling textile recycling in Europe—turning waste into value"
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas a specific textile recycling target does not yet exist but textile waste represents one of the product categories that make up municipal waste and is therefore subject to recycling targets laid down in the Directive 2008/98/EC;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the urgency of ensuring that textile products placed on the EU market are sustainable, long-lived, reusable and recyclable, and free of hazardous substances; expresses its concern that the measures identified in the EU Strategy might not be sufficient to fulfil the 2030 objective and calls on the Commission to ensure all necessary measures, including additional measures to those identified in the strategy, are taken to achieve the 2030 vision; calls for these measures to aim at the best overall environmental outcomes in line with the waste hierarchy and for a low carbon footprint;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the need for an absolute decoupling of growth from resource use in the textile sector; calls on the Commission to propose science-based binding EU mid-term and long-term targets for the reduction in the use of primary raw materials and environmental impacts including a specific target for the textile sector; calls for setting the EU targets through a back-casting approach to ensure that policy objectives are on a credible path to achieve a carbon-neutral, environmentally sustainable, toxic-free and fully circular economy within planetary boundaries by 2050 at the latest
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls on the Commission to propose binding EU targets for 2030 to significantly reduce the EU material and consumption footprints and bring them within planetary boundaries by 2050;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises the potential of a sustainable bio-economy and stresses the importance of the implementation of the EU Bioeconomy and Biodiversity Strategies to improve circularity in textile sector by the replacement, where environmentally beneficial and sustainable, of fossil materials with renewable, bio-based materials;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that textile producers should have extended producer responsibility for the textiles they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State; emphasises that the extended producer responsibility should comply as a minimum with the requirements of Article 8 and Article 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC; considers that the Commission should add to the costs laid down in paragraph 4 of Article 8a, any other relevant costs specific to the textile sector, including for recovery.
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that separate collection of textiles will be mandatory from 1 January 2025; underlines that the revision of the Waste Framework Directive planned for 2024 should consider specific separate targets for textile waste prevention, textile reuse, preparation for reuse, and recycling and a phasing out of landfilling of textiles; stresses the importance of developing a Union-wide end of waste criteria for textiles and concrete measures to tackle microfibre loss;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that measures to increase donations can play an important role in preventing textiles from becoming waste; calls on the Commission to assess and clarify the interpretation of existing legal provisions that might hinder or discourage donations and to assess the need for a European framework on donations.
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights the need to make full use of the EU Ecolabel, in addition to eventual labels adopted under the Ecodesign regulation, by increasing market awareness and recognition, setting of comprehensive standards and further extending the scheme to relevant textile products and facilitating its use in procurement.
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Underlines that repurposing of unsold textiles could represent an important measure to boost waste prevention; calls therefore on the Commission to introduce legal provisions on repurposing in the review of the Waste Framework Directive;