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 British government wants to fundamentally reposition its steel industry with a clear focus on decarbonisation and the circular economy. At the heart of the UK Steel Strategy is a raw ma-terial that has often been underestimated in the past: steel scrap.
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.
Recycling Europe has criticized a European Commission draft list that would bar EU recyclers from exporting ferrous and non-ferrous metal waste to major non-OECD markets in Asia, calling the underlying risk assessment technically flawed.
The EU Commission is not tightening the existing requirements for recycling efficiency and the recovery of materials from used batteries for the time being.
