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Ratti Group | Sustainability Report 2022

customers are used to make items of clothing
which, in turn, having been purchased by the end-
EPR: a tool to render the textile/fashion sector more consumer and having reached the end of their life
circular cycle, produce textile waste.
According to “The Italy that recycles”, 2021
One powerful circularity tool is Textiles, published by the European edition, a study carried out by the Foundation for
Extended Producer Responsibility Commission in March 2022, further Sustainable Development , the destination of
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(EPR), whereby producers’ enhanced EPR. Ratti has, for some post-consumption textile waste collected on the
responsibilities extend to managing time, been carrying out studies national market breaks down as follows:
the end of life of products which and investigations on the topic, in
they themselves launched on the partnership with other companies. - 68% of waste from garments and accessories
national market. In EPR, producers – These activities came to a positive is destined to form part of preparation for
reuse in cycles of consumption;
i.e. companies in the textile/fashion conclusion and, in 2022, Ratti and a
sector – come together to organise number of other companies set up the - 29% is sent for recycling (production of
and finance the collection, selection Retex Green consortium, which dealt industrial cloths, secondary raw materials for
and treatment of textile waste. The with the recycling of textile waste and the textile industry, lining, sound-absorbing
Strategy for Sustainable and Circular the circularity of the supply chain. material);
- 3% is sent for disposal.

Collaborative projects
Any improvement in the management of textile
waste depends mainly on the conditions in the
system (such as the presence of plant in the local
region, consortia dealing with collection and
treatment of waste, as well as the responsibility
taken by producers) that can be created by the
implementation of EPR and the development of
recycling chains.

In addition, Ratti SpA BC took part in the Rehubs
partnership project promoted by Euratex, the
European Confederation of textile and clothing
companies. The Rehubs project was a partnership
of around 20 European companies, including
Ratti, supported by McKinsey Consultants, which
contributed to and financed a feasibility study into
the development of technologies used to recycle
textiles. In Europe, seven million tons of textile
waste, of which 30-35% was collected, required
the scaling of technology and an increase in the
number of recycling plants, close cooperation
between companies and public-private
partnership. The benefit of the Rehubs (recycling
hubs) project was recognised by the ITMF
(International Textile Manufacturers Federation).
At the Federation’s annual conference, held in
September at Davos, Switzerland, the project was
amongst the winners of the 2022 ITMF Cooperation
Award. The award was given to companies
which had contributed to the project, including
Ratti. The Rehubs project will continue with the
implementation of the findings of the study.
3) https://www.
fondazionesvilupposostenibile.org/
wp-content/uploads/ITALIA_DEL_ As far as preventing waste is concerned, Ratti
RICICLO_2021_web.pdf SpA BC is working with Siticibo on the collection

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