EPR, Collection, and Sorting: Insights on Legislation Across the World

Cveta Majtanovic works at the intersection of market entry, ecosystem partnerships and business development, building and scaling innovative businesses in new markets and complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Her background combines strategic leadership, technology literacy and strong cultural fluency across Europe. Alongside market-building roles, she leads public representation, strategic communications and PR, representing companies at high-profile international conferences and industry forums.

She is a frequent public speaker and panelist at global events, engaging with policymakers, industry leaders and investors on innovation, growth and transformation. A two-term Board Member of the UN Global Compact Network Italy, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, and a member of Mensa.it and the Meaningful Business Intellectual Leadership Network.
In October 2025, Cveta was recognized with the Meaningful Business 100 award for leaders advancing both profit and purpose, followed in 2026 by recognition in the Impact category of the Symbol Powerlist.

Jelica Ramirez is a textile circularity expert with extensive experience across both the upstream and downstream textile value chain. Her background spans textile and fashion production, business development, EPR, collection and sorting, reuse and recycling.
Combining a deep understanding of textile products with business and circular economy expertise, she works at the intersection of industry, regulation and waste management. Her focus is on translating evolving regulatory requirements into practical solutions and connecting stakeholders across the textile value chain.
Jelica is actively engaged in advancing the transition towards a circular textile economy, with a particular focus on developing scalable systems that connect producers, collection and sorting infrastructure, reuse and recycling pathways, and emerging EPR frameworks.

Dr. Tom Voege is Policy Director of the PRO Circularity Alliance, where he shapes regulatory strategy around the circular economy and EPR. With a background spanning the United Nations and the OECD, he brings deep insights from global policy-making to practical implementation. His academic training, holding a PhD and MSc in Engineering and Environment from the University of Southampton, is complemented by 25+ years of professional experience.

Vincent Djen has over 21 years of experience in the textile and fashion industry. He is Director of CKG, a family-founded company with more than 51 years of history, specializing in sustainable and certified garment manufacturing for premium fashion brands. Vincent also serves as Director of T2T at Feimayi, China’s leading textile waste collection, sorting, and recycling company, and a pioneer of the country’s online textile waste collection model. In addition, he is co-founder of CTR (YJ-QS), a subsidiary of Feimayi focused on the sorting, recycling, and preprocessing of textile waste feedstock for textile-to-textile (T2T) recycling applications.