Climate change and Environment and sustainability / Sofía Lazcano /
Europe expands waste management requirements for the food and textile sectors
The waste directive is amended to prevent the generation of food waste and to define the foundations of the extended producer responsibility regime for textile and footwear products.
On September 26, the Official Journal of the European Union published Directive (EU) 2025/1892 of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 10, 2025, amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste.
The new rule, which will enter into force on October 16, aims to respond to the strengthened and accelerated action by the Union and the Member States required by the European Green Deal and the New Circular Economy Action Plan in order to ensure the environmental sustainability of the food and textile sectors, which are considered by the directive to be sectors with intensive use of resources that can cause negative environmental externalities.
To that end, it introduces a set of measures whose compliance must be ensured by the Member States by bringing into force the necessary legal, regulatory and administrative provisions no later than June 17, 2027.
