Auszug >Nach der EU-Ökodesign-Verordnung für nachhaltige Produkte ist es großen Unternehmen mit mehr als 250 Mitarbeitern und einem Nettojahresumsatz von über 50 Millionen Euro verboten, Bestände an nicht verkaufter Kleidung, Accessoires und Schuhen zu vernichten.
Unternehmen müssen nun Möglichkeiten finden, die Produkte zu verkaufen, unter anderem über Rabatte, alternative Märkte und Spenden für wohltätige Zwecke.
Nicht verkaufte Kleidung kann nur vernichtet werden, wenn die Artikel unsicher, beschädigt oder gefälscht sind oder von Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen abgelehnt werden
Der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Handelsverbands Deutschland, Stefan Genth, warnte jedoch, dass die Regeländerung für viele Geschäfte eine Herausforderung darstellen würde. **Aufgrund beschädigter Verpackung, hoher Logistikkosten, mangelnder Nachfrage oder niedrigem Produktwert können nicht alle nicht verkauften Waren problemlos weiterverkauft oder gespendet werden**
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-ban-on-destroying-unsold-clothes-takes-effect/a-78024888
Von QualityOverQuant
22 Kommentare
Prediction: they start charities to reject their own clothes.
So they just rip them apart so its damaged
All brands are now under 250 employees
**Not all unsold goods can be resold or donated easily due to damaged packaging, high logistics costs, lack of demand or low product values**
Maybe thats a sign that you should make less goods, so demand increases and the quality improves?
Just make a corner of the store where everything is 1€ or something.
What would luxurious brands do now?
Sell them back to India. Indian yarn manufacturers have already incorporated recycled yarn into their manufacturing process.
Plus there is a H U G E second-hand market in India.
Now do the same with unsold food/groceries (which is even more important imo)
Luxury brands will just sell them to a non-EU subsidiary and it will be destroyed there.
Very cool EU, thank you
My prediction: They’re gonna flood the African markets with super cheap clothes. Rich countries always dispose their trash in the poorest countries.
lol what? They can’t be donated easily?
That must be a joke. They can simply have one or two days per year, where they declare everything for free what’s left in the store. They’re simply afraid that then their sales will plummet. Outlet stores already exist today where they sell reject or faulty goods for very cheap. Simply making it free would be the next step. This is corporate greed at it’s best.
Good should be a way to put a bump into fast fashion and a way to help the charity’s get more clothes.
Only 4-9% of unsold items get destroyed, 91-96% are otherwise reused or repurposed.
Cool, more second hand clothes for us in Balkans
Luckily this is not applied to unsold cars at the car-graveyard …
I am afraid this will mean shipping cheap clothes to Africa and giving them away which will ruin the local manufacturers instead of improving quality and reducing waste. But maybe I am to pessimistic.
It’s already not allowed to put old cloth into the trash since January 2025, but unfortunately it seems like a lot of the German cities, and municipalities, have done nothing to adjust for that (here for example, they have removed most old-cloth collections a long time ago).
Surely the psychological damage caused by being seen in last year’s fashion makes the clothes unsafe.
LVH in shambles, until they start lobbying.
This feels like one of those things that sound great on paper but will mostly just result in rising costs for consumers as companies will make us pay for the logistics of dumping them somewhere outside the eu
GOOD! now do it with food.