Textile Sustainability Regulations: What’s Happening Now

Textile Sustainability Regulations: What’s Happening Now

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Overview

Product sustainability regulation is accelerating globally, led by the EU and increasingly mirrored across the Americas. This session offers a structured horizon scan of current and upcoming legislation impacting textiles, including ESPR and its delegated acts, as well as parallel developments in North and South America.

Building on our work with brands and retailers across multiple regions, we will step back and give a truly global picture: how EU measures on ecodesign, Digital Product Passports and textile EPR are setting the pace, how the United States and Canada are responding through state and federal initiatives, and how emerging frameworks in Latin America are beginning to align.

With insights from experts, we will distinguish between regulations already in force and those still taking shape, helping organisations understand regulatory direction, timing and strategic implications. We will also highlight where requirements are converging across regions, and where they diverge, so global teams can prioritise action and avoid a fragmented, country by country approach

Why Attend?

Textiles are among the priority sectors under ESPR, and early preparation will determine competitive advantage. The regulation will:

  • Reshape design and material decisions
  • Influence procurement and supplier requirements
  • Impact reuse, repair, recycling and end-of-life obligations
  • Increase data and traceability expectations across the value chain
  • Strengthen alignment between ESPR, EPR and Digital Product Passports through eco-design and data

Whether you’re leading sustainability, product development, compliance, sourcing or circularity initiatives, this webinar will equip you with actionable insights.

Who Should Attend

  • Apparel Brands and Retailers (global and EU)
  • Sustainability and ESG teams
  • Product and design teams
  • Regulatory, compliance and legal teams
  • Circularity & EPR program leads
  • Supply chain and operations managers

Meet the experts

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. 

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. 

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Secure your place and learn what your organization must do to comply with, or lead under, the new eco-design regime.

We look forward to helping you navigate the next phase of sustainable product regulation.

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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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