Michael Brunn

Kuusakoski plans to invest 25M€ in building a steel recycling plant that will operate 100% carbon free.

Today, the Commission is proposing common criteria against greenwashing and misleading environmental claims.

Today, the European Commission adopted a new proposal on common rules promoting the repair of goods.

Production of recycled plastic content is far from meeting demand, posing major industry challenges.

The European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) is a step in the right direction towards reducing reliance on CRMs from outside the EU and enhancing EU supply chain resiliency and security.

In Mexico, waste, including industrial waste, is still frequently disposed of in landfill sites.

Today, the Commission proposes a comprehensive set of actions to ensure the EU's access to a secure, diversified, affordable and sustainable supply of critical raw materials.

Even at the beginning of the new year, there is uncertainty among plastics recyclers. Al-most all problems were carried over from the old year, as can be seen from the market report of the plastics division of the BIR. No one can say exactly where the journey will take us at the moment. However, there is cautious optimism that 2023 could be a better year again.

The EU taxonomy is intended to ensure that more investment is made in sustainable pro-jects in the future. This also includes buildings. The German Sustainable Building Coun-cil, together with sister societies from Spain, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, examined a total of 38 buildings on the basis of the taxonomy criteria. The result: The real estate industry is not yet ready.

With the report "Pathways to circular plastics in Europe: Good examples from countries, businesses and citizens", the European Topic Centre on Circular Economy and Resource Use (ETC CE) aims to show how the handling of plastics and plastic waste can be funda-mentally changed.