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WRAP and the retail industry have declared in favour of bringing textiles under an extended producer responsibility (EPR) regime.
Representatives of both told a parliamentary inquiry this week that textiles should be next in line for EPR after its intended extension to packaging.
Questioned at an Environmental Audit Committee meeting by Labour MP Feryal Clark, WRAP’s head of business collaboration David Moon said that, despite progress on reducing the carbon footprint of textiles, more clothes were being bought and discarded.
This meant “the carbon footprint is going in the wrong direction and there is also a high volume of clothing going to waste, so I think it is a candidate for the application of EPR”.