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35 new EDANA members represent full nonwovens supply chain

07 Nov '13

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As an example of this global stewardship, Patricia Featherstone, Chair of the EDANA Board of Governors said “We have asked the EU Commission to eliminate tariff duties on nonwovens imported from the US, and will be doing the same for trade between the EU and Japan.”

“EDANA’s OUTREACH Programme, designed to spread our core message and in particular our leading product stewardship approach, enables us to move throughout the world with a great efficiency, especially in improving the value chain’s understanding of the benefits of promoting sustainable products” continued Patricia.

All EDANA events in 2013 have in one way or the other addressed these themes. From post consumer waste management – a critical issue in the industrialized world 20 years ago and now in emerging countries - to integrated product stewardship practices, EDANA has a leading role to play.

During the week of SINCE13 in China, Pierre Wiertz met with Asian nonwovens industry partners and has offered partnership and alignment in a number of new areas.

“There is no doubt that questions or issues we have addressed in Europe, such as demonstrating that single-use absorbent hygiene products are compatible with all modern waste management options, are being or will have to be answered elsewhere. We are here to help, and we take our global leadership seriously as a result.” concluded Pierre Wiertz.

The next opportunity of addressing these and other issues will be the ABINT-EDANA workshop on November 19th in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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