According to FEAD, battery fires caused an estimated €2.66 billion in damage in the EU waste sector in 2025, and incidents are rising.
Indian recyclers have urged the EU to reconsider its Waste Shipment Regulation, which excludes India from a provisional list of approved importers.
Trade barriers are increasingly driven by supply chain security concerns rather than economic or environmental reasons, according to BIR.
A report by the European Environment Agency finds that clean industrial transformation can boost competitiveness, but must accelerate.
The Bureau of International Recycling asks the European Commission to revise planned export limits for recycled metals and extend its consultation.
The building sector is one of the largest consumers of resources and emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe. With the European Commission's concept of "whole-life carbon", the focus is now on the entire life cycle of buildings and thus also on the central role of materials and material flows.
The European Environmental Bureau calls for strict environmental reviews of 46 new EU projects for critical raw materials.
The European Commission has selected 46 projects to expand the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials in the European Union.
The regulation of plastics is one of the most important fields of European environmental and circular economy policy.
The EEB has left the Critical Chemicals Alliance over concerns about its methodology, governance and proposed treatment of regulated chemicals.
The Bureau of International Recycling has warned that the European Commission's draft list of non-OECD countries authorised to import certain non-hazardous waste could exclude major Asian markets and disrupt global recycling supply chains.
In the future, public clients will be able to procure durable, repairable and remanufactured products more easily.
