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CHAPTER 4 | RATTI’S ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT

of quantity and type of waste produced, since To this end, waste that is produced downstream 4 https://circulareconomy.
2018 Ratti has made a commitment to weigh, from the organisation is represented by products, europa.eu/platform/sites/
trace and report the main types of waste – paper, whether fabrics or accessories, and packaging default/files/national_strategy_
for_circular_economy_11_2017_
plastic, textile and unsorted waste, with the aim bound for customers. it1.pdf
of improving its waste management.
Fabrics provided to customers are used to make
The waste produced is managed by a third items of clothing which, in turn, are purchased by
party, which is responsible for the transportation, the end-consumer and which, at the end of their
recycling and disposal of the waste. For certain life cycle, produce textile waste.
types of waste an agreement has been reached
with a company accredited by the State.

The Environmental Agency of the Republic
of Tunisia carries out all necessary checks on EPR: a tool to render the textile/fashion
such companies, verifying compliance. At the sector more circular
Textrom site, finally, waste disposal takes place
in accordance with local regulations, reporting One powerful circularity tool is of specific decrees were emitted in
the principal categories of waste and their Extended Producer Responsibility Italy, including Legislative Decree 116
destinations and having launched a study of (EPR), whereby producers’ of 3 September 2021 which dealt with
projects aimed at improving performance. responsibilities extend to managing the topic of EPR.
The transportation, recycling and disposal of the the end of life of products which they
waste is managed by third-party contractors. themselves launched on the national In this regard, the Ministry of Ecological
market. Transition (MITE) has begun a public
In EPR, producers – i.e. companies consultation on the national strategy
The amount of waste produced by the Group’s 4
companies can be divided into three main in the textile/fashion sector – come for the circular economy , stating that it
together to organise and finance the
wants to render EPR operational in the
categories:
collection, selection and treatment of textile sector.
textile waste.
l Waste from production; In anticipation of the introduction of
In EPR, the responsibility attributed to textile EPR in Italy, Ratti SpA, together
l Waste from activities associated with the industry is seen as a way to improve with the Herno clothing company,
the maintenance of buildings and the both the rate of collection and the commissioned a feasibility study to
maintenance of machinery; results from re-using and recycling look at introducing a collective EPR
materials. Experiences in Italy of non- system in the textile/fashion sector.
l Waste from packaging. textile products (such as batteries, tyres, With regard to the public decision-
electrical and electronic equipment) maker, the initiative was taken by
bear witness to the validity of the tool. the Confindustria association SMI
The amount of waste linked to maintenance (Sistema Moda Italia), of which Ratti
of buildings/maintenance of machinery is in In addition, thanks to the and Herno are members, which wrote
no way correlated with the Group’s annual implementation of the European and published a position paper on the
production. However, it is strongly conditional Circular Economy Package, a number matter.
on any building sites associated with renovation
projects, the construction of new buildings or the
revamping of the production areas.

In 2019, Ratti SpA carried out a gate-to-gate
LCA survey for the Guanzate plant, which was
reviewed by a certified third-party company (see 4.1
“Sustainability in textiles: challenge accepted”).

The objective of this was to ascertain the impact
of direct activities, and the results showed that
there had been a negligible impact from the waste
generated and its transportation.
The Ratti Group’s attention is not devoted
exclusively to the waste produced by its own
companies. Instead, it looks beyond that to
encompass what is happening downstream from
its organisation.

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