“Sustainable talks. An innovative and avant-garde look at ESG principles”. This is the title chosen by FederlegnoArredo to present, during its annual assembly, Re-Design, the Consortium project conceived and developed together with companies by the Federation to deal with the end-of-life of furniture products within the supply chain.
It is a Consortium that aims to support furniture companies in the full transition towards the circular economy, in the form of a collective system that enables them to be ready for a possible future implementation of extended responsibility in the sector by the legislator.
“This is an ambitious project,” FederlegnoArredo chairman Claudio Feltrin explained to associates and stakeholders in the setting of the H-Farm in Roncade, “which presupposes an important paradigm shift according to which every manufacturer is called upon to pay for the environmental impacts for which it is responsible. We have decided to take this on and we can proudly say that we are working on the definition of the statute of the consortium, which will then have to be followed by the drafting of the regulations. The presence of Deputy Environment Minister Vannia Gava, whom we thank for her availability, is crucial now, as it has been in recent months.
At the Salone del Mobile she described this idea as “a positive example in terms of sustainability and producer responsibility for waste management” and on that same occasion declared that the hope was that “by June we will be able to present an EPR model for the furniture sector”. FederlegnoArredo has kept its promise“.
“Italian companies know how to anticipate the market and keep up with the challenges we face. FederlegnoArredo”s project,” explained Deputy Minister Vannia Gava in her address to the assembly, “is an excellent example of this and will enable us to accelerate the sustainability goals of the entire sector and renew the strategies of the entire furnishing supply chain, fully interpreting the concept of circular economy. We will now launch an experimental project, with a programme agreement, that can lay the foundations for a new EPR in a key sector for Made In Italy“.
“The objective,” comments Maria Porro, president of Assarredo, “is to ensure that extended producer responsibility becomes a strategic opportunity that accompanies the transformation of the sector towards a real and full circular economy. An opportunity for renewal that Assarredo has decided to seize in the interest of the companies it represents, with an increasingly circular vision of the production model and an approach that starts from the bottom. I thank Deputy Minister Gava for his words that confirm the far-sightedness of the furniture sector on such a strategic issue as EPR“.
The Consortium will be able to operate throughout the country, guaranteeing the collection, recovery and recycling of waste furniture and other furnishing products, as well as the reuse of furniture and other furnishing products, accelerating the transition to the circular economy of a sector that is already strongly committed to this direction.
