D-VA Amsterdam B.V.

EU Legislative Interests

We emailed the Commissioner of the Cabinet, and they reached out for a digital meeting through the secretary. Reason is that Zer0-waste primary objective is to motivate consumers to return disposed garments into designated recycling streams, ensuring diversion from landfill and incineration. In parallel, we address the reality that the majority of fast-fashion items are polyester-based and difficult to recycle, by enabling scalable, mechanically recyclable material solutions for the large share of textiles currently classified as non-recyclable. The Commissioner is interested to discuss with discuss, at EU level, the possibility of a conditional eco-modulation fee reduction for fast-fashion producers that can demonstrate verified recycling of post-consumer products. Under such conditions, an incentive would be legally justifiable. • EPR in the EU is governed primarily by the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) • Textiles are now being integrated through new mandatory EPR schemes (2023–2025 rollout) • Eco-modulation is based mainly on: o Durability o Recyclability o Recycled content In order to have the call we need to provide the registration number of the European Transparency register. While EPR and eco-modulation have shifted part of the disposal cost to producers and improved upstream design, most post-consumer fast-fashion textiles continue to be disposed of. This is largely because current EPR regulations focus on products placed on the market rather than verified outcomes for products disposed of by consumers. Consequently, neither brands nor consumers are sufficiently incentivized to ensure post-consumer textiles are recycled. We propose to address bridging the gap by setting a European standard that reduces textile waste that is still incinerated and or landfilled by • Per-item traceability of fast-fashion products, including after sale to the consumer • Fraud-free, real-time verification of post-consumer collection and recycling • Full accessibility for regulators and compliance with existing regulatory principles The primary objective is to motivate consumers to return disposed garments into designated recycling streams, ensuring diversion from landfill and incineration. In parallel, we address the reality that the majority of fast-fashion items are polyester-based and difficult to recycle, by enabling scalable, mechanically recyclable material solutions for the large share of textiles currently classified as non-recyclable.

Communication Activities

EPR regulations that only focus on textile products that are brought into the EU market however the current regulations do not target the post-consumer traceability of textile back into the recycling process. If post-consumer textile products traceability would be incentivized the producers of these textile products would be motivated to collaborate preventing their own post-consumer textile products going as waste into incineration and or landfill. Some examples of EPR regulations in Europe RE-VISTE (Spain) The new Spanish collective EPR scheme, set up by major retailers (IKEA, Inditex, H&M, Decathlon, Mango, etc.). Rematrix / Consorzio ERP Italia Tessile (Italy) Italian consortium initiatives preparing for Italy’s EPR scheme. Refashion (France) French eco-organization for textiles. Coordinate collection, sort, reuse & recycling of clothing, home textiles & footwear. Stichting UPV Textiel (Netherlands) Dutch producer organization helping brands/importers comply with the new EPR rules for textiles.

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

Member of the business club the Royal Industrial Club (igc.nl) and association of the Netherlands Hong Kong Business Association (nhkba.nl) I hold the position of Vice Chairman at NHKBA. We have not signed any official partnerships agreements as we are in the start-up phase.

Additional Information

The Eur 20K is the cost of travelling, advice collection, demonstration to the RVO Netherlands and Economic Affairs. We are actively visiting stakeholders in Europe to collaborate in our efforts to reduce textile waste. Stakeholders are European Fashion brands, Recyclers, Auditors and Governments. In D-VA Amsterdam we have presented the Zer0-Waste solution which resulted in positive feedback from 1/ ABN AMRO Netherlands ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund Netherlands (SIF) confirms by email that the Zer0-Waste Global Monetary Deposit Software is an interesting development, where ABN AMRO likes to invest when the Revenue reaches Eur. 2 Million 2/ KPMG Headquarters Amstelveen Netherlands from Circular Economy / Sustainable Advisory endorsed our Software with the support of KPMG Emerging Giants 3/ Parity Technologies Provide their competitive blockchain advantage of high speed transactions per second 4/ DLP Piper and Hedera Foundation Provide data security and compliance support 5/ European Fast Fashion Brands based in Netherlands, Spain and Italy