The European Commission today (Feb 9) adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear. To help reduce this wasteful practice, the ESPR requires companies to disclose information on the unsold consumer products they discard as waste. Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular EconomyBackgroundThe destruction of unsold goods is a wasteful practice. In France alone, around €630 million worth of unsold products are destroyed each year. More informationDelegated Regulation setting out derogations from the prohibition of destruction of unsold consumer products | European CommissionImplementing Regulation on the details and format for the disclosure of information on discarded unsold consumer products | European CommissionEcodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation | European CommissionEcodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation | EUR-LexTextiles strategy | European CommissionThe destruction of returned and unsold textiles in Europe’s circular economy | European Environment Agency (EEA)