Deputy Minister Gava: “We are experimenting with new EPR in the key sector of Made in Italy”.

Feltrin: “Ambitious goal, fundamental dialogue with MASE”.

Porro: “EPR opportunities for an increasingly responsible and sustainable sector”

“Sustainable talks. An innovative and cutting-edge look at ESG principles”. That is the title FederlegnoArredo chose to present during the annual assembly Re-Design, the Consortium project conceived and developed with companies by the Federation to deal with the end of life of the furniture product within the supply chain. It is a Consortium that aims to support furniture companies in the transition to the circular economy in the form of a collective system that allows them to be ready for a possible future implementation of extended responsibility in the sector by the legislator.

“An ambitious project,” explains the president of FederlegnoArredo, Claudio Feltrin, to members and stakeholders in the setting of the H-Farm in Roncade, “which presupposes an important paradigm shift according to which each producer is called upon to pay for the environmental impacts for which he is responsible. We have decided to take charge of it and can proudly say that we are working on the definition of the Consortium’s Statute, which will then have to be followed by the Regulations drafting. The presence of the Deputy Minister for the Environment Vannia Gava, whom we thank for her availability, is essential now, as it has been in recent months. At the Salone del Mobile, he called this idea “a positive example in terms of sustainability and producer responsibility about waste management”, and, on that same occasion, he declared that the hope was that “in June we would 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 to catch up with the challenges. The FederlegnoArredo project – explains Deputy Minister Vannia Gava in her speech at the assembly – is an excellent example of this and will allow us to accelerate the sustainability goals of the entire sector and to renew the strategies of the entire furniture supply chain, fully interpreting the concept of circular economy. We will now launch an experimental project, with a program agreement, which can lay the foundations for a new EPR in a key sector for Made in Italy.”

“The goal,” comments Maria Porro, president of Assarredo, “is to ensure that extended producer responsibility becomes a strategic opportunity that accompanies the sectors’s transformation towards a real and full circular economy. This a renewal opportunity that Assarredo has decided to seize in the interest of the companies it represents, with an increasingly circular vision of the production model and with an approach that starts from the bottom. I thank Deputy Minister Gava for his words, confirming the foresight of the furniture sector on such a strategic issue as EPR”.

The Consortium will be able to operate throughout the country, ensuring the collection, 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 already committed to this direction.