From Vote to Vision: The Future of Textile Waste Infrastructure under EPR

From Vote to Vision: The Future of Textile Waste Infrastructure under EPR

What happens after the vote is cast and new textile EPR regulations come into force? One critical question stands out: what happens to all the textiles once they’re collected? In this webinar, our experts will take you beyond the policy to the practical reality.

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Webinar Registration: From Vote to Vision: The Future of Textile Waste Infrastructure under EPR

On November 11 at 15:00 CET, RLG in collaboration with Reconomy, is hosting an educational online event: From Vote to Vision: The Future of Textile Waste Infrastructure under EPR. This interactive session is designed to help businesses stay compliant, confident, and ahead of the curve.  

During the webinar, our team will give a clear breakdown of today’s infrastructure, from collection and sorting networks to mechanical, chemical, and thermal recycling technologies. They will also address the most common challenges affecting textile brands, including bottlenecks and the limitations of current systems. Then they will take a walk on the positive side, looking at the opportunities ahead, including how EPR funding can unlock capacity, drive innovation, and enable new reuse and recycling models. The floor is yours at the end of the session, where you can ask all of your questions live. PLUS, there’ll be a special guest!

Who should attend?

Compliance, legal, packaging, sustainability, procurement, and brand leads, or anyone responsible for keeping your products on shelves and in customers’ hands.  

Meet the Experts

Lavi Aharon – Director of Textile Program and Business Development

Lavi has deep expertise in environmental economics, circular materials management, and textile value chains. He currently serves as Director of Textile Program & Business Development at Reconomy, where he advances strategies for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and circular textile systems. As Textile EPR gains momentum globally, Lavi is passionate about helping textile brands move beyond being compliant to a more strategic and meaningful circular approach. 

Aimee Campanella – Development Director – Textiles EPR

Aimee specialises in guiding clients through the intricate landscape of global legislation surrounding textiles EPR. Ensuring compliance with these regulations isn’t just a priority, it’s a legal requirement. Aimee is passionate about driving reuse initiatives through Reconomy’s omnichannel network. By leveraging Reconomy’s extensive resources, Aimee helps clients not only meet their regulatory obligations but also explore sustainable, environmentally friendly practices that benefit both their business and the planet. 

Nicolas Meletiou – Managing Director – ESO Società Benefit arl

In 1999, Nicolas Meletiou founded ESO, a company specializing in the collection, disposal, and valorization of special office waste, now serving major banking, IT, and retail groups. An expert in international sales and fluent in several languages, he has held senior roles including general manager, CEO, and chairman across multiple industries and regions. His leadership journey began in 1997 as CEO of one of Italy’s leading hazardous waste storage companies, marking his shift toward environmental innovation. He later expanded into the circular economy by founding ESO RECYCLING, focused on sustainability in the sport, fashion, and PPE sectors. 
 

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Register today, don’t miss this chance to get your textile EPR questions answered. Can’t make it live? Register with your business email and receive the recording after.

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Les Griffith - Speakers

Business Development Director
RLGA

Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.

Andriana Kontovrakis - Speakers

Director of Compliance Services
RLG

Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team.  She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law.  Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.

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