“Repairing means making it last and it’s good for your wallet,” says Refashion, the eco-organization charged by the government with supporting the fashion industry towards the circular economy, on its website. , regarding the “repair bonus”. Launched a year ago, for clothing and shoes, it allowed the French to save 6.8 million euros, with more than 800,000 repairs financed by this system, the eco-organization revealed on Thursday.
“At the end of 2024, more than 1,530 repairers (30% of which are brands) are certified and listed on the www.bonusreparation.fr platform,” Refashion said in a press release. 826,000 repairs have been carried out thanks to this bonus since November 2023, a number which has “almost tripled in the last 6 months”, affirmed the eco-organization.
It is in Ile-de-France that the system is most dynamic, with 208 certified repairers and 150,000 repairs carried out since the launch.
Refashion acknowledged that it “is not yet able, to date, to determine precisely what part of these repairs benefited from the bonus”, that is to say the proportion of customers who would not have had recourse to repair without the bonus, but that this was “the whole point of a study which will begin in January”.
Contributions by brands on the “polluter pays” model
Like that for household appliances, the textile “repair bonus” (with the exception of household linen and lingerie) allows consumers to benefit from discounts when repairs are carried out by approved professionals. A discount is then automatically made on the price of the repair – for example 7 euros for a hole, tear or tear in clothing or 25 euros for resoling leather shoes.
As part of the REP (extended producer responsibility) sector, on the “polluter pays” principle, each fashion brand pays an eco-contribution to Refashion, which should make it possible to release one billion euros over the period 2023- 2028, part of which is allocated to the Reparation fund.
