The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy, has initiated a draft Emergency Ordinance that could impose much stricter rules on imports of reusable products, including textiles.
Although the intention behind this project is laudable (strict regulation of waste – Romania is not a landfill), however, representatives of the “reuse industry” claim that the proposed text introduces excessive obligations and uncorrelated with the reality on the ground – things that could seriously affect the functioning of the sector.
Since the publication of the draft text of the EGO of the Ministry of Environment, the online petition initiated by the Romanian Association for Textile Reuse and Recycling (ARETEX) called „Sign so you can buy second-hand clothes” has collected almost 6,000 signatures.
In a response sent to Mediafax’s request, Zoltan Gündisch, president of ARETEX (Romanian Association for Textile Reuse and Recycling), details the main probl...

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