#epr-funding-mechanism

Make the companies that put packaging on the market pay for its end-of-life and cleanup, and reward less-wasteful designs. Shifts cost and design incentives upstream to the producers who created the litter, rather than onto taxpayers.

Scale the EPR fee by recyclability (bonus for durable mono-fibre garments, malus for disposable blends) and add a per-item levy on ultra-fast-fashion volume. This funds reject processing and pushes producers to design for sortability — shrinking the unsellable fraction at source.

Have municipalities procure textile collection as a paid service (service contract or per-tonne gate fee), like glass or biowaste, so the operator is paid to collect and divert tonnage and resale revenue just lowers the price — moving commodity risk from the fragile operator to t

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.

When Le Relais suspended its national collection on 15 July 2025, the Pays Fléchois (Sarthe) lost its textile drop-off service. The local partner (Monde Solidaire in neighbouring sud-Sarthe) had ended its collaboration…

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…

When 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…