Textile: Sustainable Production & Ecodesign: challenges and opportunities

Strategies and solutions for the digitization of products information, placed on the market to ensure repairability, recyclability and to fight greenwashing. Cases and best practices of primary groups and companies; best in class local solutions of the Italian territory for the textile industry. Made in Italy as an asset also on Sustainability; Italy being not only the first exporter of textile products in Europe and third in the world after India and China, but also where the textile industry feeds social innovation and technology, in strongly demarcated districts where synergies can be facilitated in a global context of continuous change and complexity. Contamination between territorial and sectoral (textile) policies, tactical urbanism and consumption transformation.

Session Chair

Eleonora Rizzuto, Chief Sustainability Officer, President AISEC - Associazione Italiana per lo Sviluppo dell’Economia Circolare

Programme

Agenda and introduction to speakers

Institutional welcome by MIMIT (remotely)

Sistema Moda Italia
Andrea Crespi

State of regulation green UE on product reparability: Implications for companies and consumers
Guido Bellitti, Studio Chiomenti

The Ecodesign Regulation and next steps for its implementation
Alberto Parenti, Team Leader Circular Economy and Sustainable Product Initiative, DG GROW – European Commission

The Italian textile district: PRATO
Concrete resources for the ecological and circular transition
Valerio Barberis, Urban Agenda for Europe: Italian contact point for partnerships on EC, Prato Council Member on Circular Economy 2019-2024

Circular Bio-Based Europe (CBE-JU)
Simone Maccaferri, Project Officer Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking

DISCUSSION WITH COMPANIES: 
Moderator:
Chiara Catgiu, Climate Change & Sustainability KPMG advisor, member of AISEC CdA

Speakers:
Maurizio Giani, HeraAmbiente / Fabrizia Turchi, Archa
Andrea Mantellassi, Manteco
Veronica Bovo, Gruppo Hind
Andrea Baldesi, Bulgari

Textile and social innovation
Alfio Fontana, Humana
Anna Fiscale, Progetto QUID

DEBATE and Conclusions