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The European Union imported phosphorus fertiliser and phosphate worth close to 1 billion euros from Russia in 2024, making up 25 percent of total imports, an analysis by environmental company Ragn-Sells has found.

Fast-paced growth of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) recycling came to a halt, with capacities plateauing in 2023. This finding is highlighted in the latest report1 released by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) in collaboration with ICIS, providing detailed data on production, collection, and recycling for the EU 27+3 region.

Doğa PET, a recycling venture by Doğa Holding, is using Tomra Recycling’s sensor-based sorting solutions to produce high-quality PET flakes and rPET granules which are suitable for food and textile applications.

A broad coalition of circular economy stakeholders, led by Tomra, today calls on the European Commission to integrate provisions that support circularity measures under the draft Clean Industrial State Aid Framework (CISAF). Despite being recognised as one of the four pillars of the Clean Industrial Deal, circularity is notably absent from the CISAF’s core provisions.

As the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) works on the development of harmonised End-of-Waste (EoW) criteria for textiles, EuRIC, the voice of Europe’s recycling industries, calls for an approach that is practical, market-driven, and innovation-friendly.

A new report from Zero Waste Europe highlights the shift underway in local waste management, showing that municipalities globally are increasingly prioritising prevention, reuse, and repair over recycling.

In July 2023, the European Commission adopted its proposal for revising and merging the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive and the 3 R Type-Approval Directive into a Regulation on Vehicle Design and Management of End-of-Life Vehicles. The proposal aims to strengthen the EU single market while reducing the negative environmental impacts linked to the design, production, use, and end-of-life treatment of vehicles and contributing to improving the circularity and sustainability of the automotive and recycling sectors.

The widespread use of PFAS polymers in everything from consumer products to green technologies can lead to contamination of water, air, soil, food, and people. A European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment says that these chemicals can also contribute to global warming and ozone depletion.

Circularity is no longer a niche environmental ambition — it is fast becoming a defining pillar of Europe’s industrial strategy. Amid mounting geopolitical pressures, volatile supply chains, and climate emergencies, the ability to retain materials, reduce resource dependence, and lower emissions has moved to the core of EU policymaking.

FEAD has unveiled its 10 policy recommendations for the upcoming Circular Economy Act, a crucial step to ensure that Europe’s circular economy ambitions are met with concrete, actionable legislation.

FEAD has brought together a group of experts coming from the mattresses value chain to visit the RetourMatras plant in the Netherlands, to start laying the foundations of a Circular Value Chain Partnership.

In 2024, exports of recyclable raw materials, which include recyclable waste and scrap as well as other secondary raw materials (by-products), from the EU to non-EU countries amounted to 35.7 million tonnes, an 8.2% decrease compared with the previous year. 2023 was a record year for exports of recyclable raw materials, as volumes reached 38.9 million tonnes, the highest in 2 decades.