This environmental display, based on the “Nutri-score” model, should see the light of day in 2024, indicates the government.
It will soon be easier to dress while taking into account its environmental impact. The government is preparing to set up a “eco-scorefor clothes, based on the “Nutri-score” model. “The French will have clear and simple information on the impact of the clothes offered for sale, and will thus be able to choose the most environmentally friendly products.“, explained Christophe Béchu and Bérangère Couillard in a forum in West France released Thursday.
This Friday, traveling to Laval (Mayenne) on the theme of sustainable fashion, the Minister for Ecological Transition and the Secretary of State for Ecology provided some details on this future environmental display. The executive wantssomething simple enough for the consumer“, with a letter, from A to E, associated with each garment, exactly like the Nutri-score for the nutritional quality of food products, underlined Bérangère Couillard.
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How will the clothes be classified? The work is in progress, we explain to the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “The criteria are being defined with all the players“, notably “textile companies and consumer associations“, specified Bérangère Couillard. The place of manufacture of the garment and its material will be part of the criteria, she has already indicated.
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This work of constructing the indicator “will take place all over 2023», for an application of the eco-score «for 2024added Bérangère Couillard. It should be fed by experiments with different evaluation and communication methods, conducted in recent months, under the aegis of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Ademe (the government agency for ecological transition). They are currently in the evaluation phase, indicates the Ademe website.
Initially, the display will be a “voluntary approach“Companies, we explain to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, which wants it to then become mandatory. In this case, “it will have to go through the legislative process“, pointed out Bérangère Couillard, who relies first on the good will of the brands.