We need “a mandatory European standard for durability and repairability”

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Le 9 novembre 2021, David Cormand intervenait à une conférence Euractiv sur l'économie circulaire en Europe : "Working towards a stronger Circular Economy – How much regulation is needed?" (« Vers une économie circulaire plus forte – Quelle est l'ampleur de la réglementation nécessaire ? »). Il a ouvert les échanges avec un message clair : nous devons, d'une part, chercher à garder les produits en circulation sur le marché le plus longtemps possible et, d'autre part, lutter contre l’obsolescence prématurée des objets. Son intervention a fait l’objet d’un article sur Euractiv (édition européenne en anglais).

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For Europe to reach its climate goals, it is vital that consumers and businesses now keep products in circulation as long as possible, said David Cormand, a French Green MEP.

“We are designing and marketing objects that are not created to last. Most of the time, as soon as they are produced, they become waste, of which only a tiny part is designed to be reused, repaired or recycled,” he said.

To tackle this, Cormand called for a mandatory European standard for durability and repairability that would make environmental products the norm on the market. The information must also be used to fight greenwashing and penalise those companies who are not working sustainably, said Cormand.