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Humana and its position on the Draft Royal Decree regulating textile waste management

07-08-2025

Humana Fundación Pueblo para Pueblo has prepared a position paper on the Draft Royal Decree regulating textile and footwear products and their waste management.


Assuming that legislation on textile waste is considerably complex, it is surprising that a Draft Royal Decree intended to regulate the prevention and management of this waste would be so clearly removed from the operational reality of the sector, generating regulatory inconsistencies, increasing existing legal uncertainty, and addressing issues unrelated to the environmental purpose that should govern the text.


Humana's position is based on:
 

  • Unbalanced intervention in an existing and functioning market
  • An asymmetric model that perpetuates privileges and distorts competition
  • Legal uncertainty and lack of definition regarding the Reuse Operator
  • Insufficient preventive measures and regulatory ambition
  • Regulatory vacuum surrounding the global reuse of textile waste
  • Unfeasibility of textile waste management in the residual fraction
  • Undefined environmental, economic, and social efficiency
  • Late and opportunistic definition of Social Economy entities
  • Conditional financing: a perverse and discriminatory incentive


View the full position paper by clicking here

 

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