Agreement points to better waste strategies for shoe components
Spain’s national association for footwear components manufacturers, AEC, has signed a new agreement with a Madrid-based non-profit recycling strategy group called Implica.
AEC said the agreement would help its member companies assess their current waste management systems and formulate a more sustainable strategy for waste materials accruing from footwear components production, including packaging.
Materials that companies will take into consideration when formulating new strategies will include chemicals, metal, wood and cardboard.
Director general of AEC, Álvaro Sánchez, said the agreement would help footwear components producers comply with environmental requirements and “keep increasing their competitiveness in a market that demands ever-growing levels of environmental responsibility”.
Implica’s coordinator, Laura Sanz de Siria, said: “The agreement with AEC reinforces our mission to drive a circular economy model, which includes optimising the management of industrial waste. It will also promote more sustainable and more responsible practices in the footwear sector.”
