Under the new rules, non-OECD countries must submit a request by 21 February 2025 to be able to continue importing recycled materials classifed as waste from the EU (Annex VIII - WSR). If no request is submitted by that deadline, a blanket ban on EU exports of recycled materials to those nearly 150 countries will take effect by 21 May 2027.
The RECRITIC Project aims to find the best recycling methods for recovering metals from mobile phone batteries and discarded motherboards, and to use these materials for new technological applications.
On 21 November, EuRIC connected the knots in textiles, bringing together EU legislators, environment experts, leading industry figures and NGO representatives for an in-depth discussion on the challenges and opportunities in the EU's textile landscape.
On Wednesday, Parliament adopted its position on new EU-wide rules on packaging, to tackle constantly growing waste and boost reuse and recycling.
According to Eurostat, in 2022, the EU's circular material use rate reached 11.5%, meaning that 11.5% of material resources used in the EU came from recycled waste materials
FEAD supports the adoption by the ENVI Committee of the position on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
The continued growth of plastics production is further exacerbating the triple planetary crisis of habitat loss, plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In the study "Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries", scientists from RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich and the University of California show that high recycling rates combined with the use of biomass and CO2 could lead to sustainable plastics production. The study was published in the journal "Nature Sustainability".
With its Inflation Reduction Act, the US is putting pressure on the European Union with regard to green technologies. In the study "IRA and the net-zero race - how EU industrial policy should respond", Deloitte examined how the EU can best respond on behalf of the Climate Economy Foundation.
EuRIC Textiles welcomes the adoption of the own-initiative report on the Sustainable Textiles Strategy by the ENVI Committee on 27 April.
FEAD welcomes the vote in the European Parliament's ENVI committee, expressing overall satisfaction with the direction of the report and the tabled amendments.
Two years after the Commission's proposal, it is likely that tomorrow's trilogue closes with a deal on a compromise for the new EU Batteries Regulation.
Whe Federal Environment Agency reports in its report "The Use of Natural Resources - Resource Report for Ger-many 2022", 945 million tonnes of raw materials were extracted in Germany in 2019. Of this, 78 percent was ac-counted for by non-renewable raw materials. Of these, 63 percent were minerals, 15 percent fossil fuels and 0.06 percent metal ores.
The EU-funded CIMPA project united experts from across the European recycling value chain to tackle the mounting challenge of managing the more than 2.6 million tonnes of multilayer plastic films that are incinerated or landfilled.
ClimateTech startup tozero has raised € 3.5m in a Pre-Seed financing round led by Atlantic Labs.
The European Commission has published draft proposals for ecodesign and energy labelling regulations on smartphones and tablets. If agreed, they will establish a repair index and the first-ever EU-wide energy label for these devices.
The European Recycling Industries' Confederation (Euric) strongly rejects an EU proposal that according to Euric will indirectly ban materials from tyres as part of its effort to eradicate microplastics.
Metal recycler has plated high purity cobalt and produced manganese dioxide from lithium-ion battery black mass.
Today, the European Waste Management Association celebrated their 40th anniversary during a successful biennial conference at IFAT in Munich.
FEAD welcomes the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles presented on 30 March by the European Commission as part of a package to make sustainable products the norm in the EU.
Landbell has presented the nominated start-ups for the 2022 Green Alley Award.
