MP wants 20% recycled textiles and cheaper repairs

The Green Party wants Sweden to require new textiles to contain at least 20% recycled material by 2035 and to make clothing repairs cheaper through lower VAT.

Its election package would also review VAT on second-hand goods, investigate tax deductions for repairs and reuse, require clearer product labels, and vary producer fees according to durability and recyclability. Public procurement would favour longer-lasting, repairable and recycled textiles.

The 20% target and differentiated producer fees are not entirely new: both appeared in an MP motion submitted to the Riksdag in 2025. The party is now packaging them with tax, procurement and investment measures as a national strategy for the next parliamentary term.

These are campaign proposals, not current law. The Government has been preparing Sweden's implementation of EU textile-producer responsibility, but that work does not enact MP's recycled-content target.

MP's release does not give a total cost, a VAT rate, a producer-fee schedule or a start date for most measures. Delivery would require a future government to draft tax and waste-law changes, fund investment support and win Riksdag approval.

For shoppers and repair businesses, the choice is concrete: lower repair taxes could shift prices, while recycled-content and producer-fee rules would alter what clothing companies must put into new products and pay when textiles become waste. No fresh party response passed DailySweden's evidence gate; the search remains open.

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