Who we help · Government
Producer responsibility that finances the recovery it promises.
We advise governments, agencies and national programmes on the design, costing and verification of producer responsibility and product data regimes — for textiles, and for the export corridors most schemes ignore. Cost the system, then design the instrument.
Extended Producer Responsibility is now law or in draft across more than sixty countries and close to four hundred policies. Most textile schemes are designed from the obligation downwards, so fees are set before anyone has costed collection, sorting and fibre-to-fibre processing. The result looks complete and functions poorly.
Cost-of-recovery modelling across collection, sorting, reuse, recycling and residual disposal. Producer definitions, scope thresholds, fee base design, eco-modulation criteria that can be independently verified, and an options appraisal of what each choice costs to administer and what it delivers.
Whether the money is reaching the infrastructure it was raised to build, whether modulation criteria produce the behaviour intended, and whether reported data can be verified rather than accepted on declaration.
Where second-hand textiles are exported, obligation and material part company. We research classification integrity, mass balance across sorting and re-export nodes, and how liability and finance can travel downstream. The UK is among the largest exporters of used textiles to West Africa.
Every government designing a Digital Product Passport regime is choosing an architecture, whether or not the choice is made deliberately. Two national models are emerging.
The passport is held and issued by the economic operator, with a registry pointing to it and verification distributed across the value chain.
In March 2026 China set up its first national DPP standardisation working group, secretariat hosted by GS1 China with forty-three members. The CAICT framework has three layers — national registry, industry registries and enterprise systems — with textiles and lithium-ion batteries as priority sectors.
China has proposed mutual recognition with the EU system, and a China-proposed standard on digital product carbon footprint has been approved by the IEC. Your architecture decides who holds the registry, where product data resides, and whether exporters face one compliance burden or two.
What we do. Architecture options and their data sovereignty implications, alignment with the European regime, the emerging Chinese system and the UN Transparency Protocol, sector sequencing, and calibration to the data domestic industry can realistically produce — interoperable abroad and workable at home.
Policy is only as good as the evidence beneath it. From 27 September 2026 a brand cannot make an unsubstantiated environmental claim to an EU consumer; we apply the same standard to the evidence beneath regulation.
Second-hand textile traceability in one of the largest second-hand clothing markets in the world, with standing relationships with market leadership, the Ghana Used Clothing Dealers Association and traders.
Advising BALWA Africa Enterprise, a tailoring and skills enterprise in Kakuma refugee camp, on its project structure and funding case — the livelihood end of the same trade.
Before a fee, target, ban or classification is fixed in law, we trace its figures to primary source: methodology, system boundary, functional unit and uncertainty range.
What imported consignments actually contain — grade, composition, rewearability, residual fraction — designed with local academic and trade partners.
ISO 14067, PAS 2050 and ISO 14064, applied to whether an eco-modulation criterion is methodologically supportable — including the cross-fibre comparisons LCA cannot carry.
Customs data, tariff classification integrity and mass balance, showing where declared classification and composition diverge and what it costs in duty and disposal.
DPP and EPR frameworks across the EU, UK, China and West Africa: what was legislated, what it cost to administer and what it achieved.
The Human Impact Equivalence Framework® quantifies programme outcomes in impacted lives, for funders who need a defensible measure of what changed.
Who we work with. Environment ministries and agencies, regulators, municipal waste authorities, producer responsibility organisations, standards bodies, and donor-funded programmes — the FCDO, UNCTAD and development finance institutions. Our cross-border textiles work sits in the territory the FCDO-funded Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme has been building evidence in since 2019.
Most engagements begin with a scoping study or a costed options appraisal that establishes what the system costs before anyone commits to an instrument. From there we support drafting, consultation responses, position papers, technical annexes and the verification architecture that makes a scheme enforceable. Field research is delivered with local academic and trade partners in-country.
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