Fund collection through cost-indexed EPR support, decoupled from the resale price
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Set the EPR support per tonne to the measured end-to-end cost of collecting, sorting, and disposing of textiles, indexed to rise automatically when resale revenue falls — so collection is a cost-recovered public service funded by producers, not a bet on the export price.
On 15 July 2025 Le Relais suspended collection across its national network of roughly 22,000 containers — about 70% of France's used-clothing collection — in a funding standoff with the eco-organisme Refashion. The Haut…
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OngoingWhen the resale-export collapse pushed French sorting operators toward insolvency in 2024–2025, the EPR-funding lever was used — repeatedly and reactively — to keep the chain alive. Refashion released a €6m emergency en…
The Communauté de communes du Mont des Avaloirs (CCMA), a rural intercommunalité in northern Mayenne, ran voluntary textile collection through containers operated by Le Relais at bring-points. All textile containers wer…