Politics

| Today the Governments of Rwanda and Norway launch The High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution together with Canada, Peru, Germany, Senegal, Georgia, Republic of Korea, UK, Switzerland, Portugal, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Costa Rica, Iceland, Ecuador, France and the Dominican Republic.

| The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) has released a report on an alarming trend: the proliferation of legislation in U.S. state legislatures  promoting  so-called "advanced recycling".

| Colm Markey, Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) visited KMK Metals Recycling Ltd, the metals and WEEE recycling business owned by President of EERA, Kurt Kyck, on Thursday, August 4thfor a tour of the company’s headquarters in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland.

| We may not like to think about recycling our waste beyond putting our dustbins out for collection, but it doesn’t take much to focus our minds.

| The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRIBoard of Directors has announced its position on chemical recycling at its July meeting.

| Yesterday, the European Waste Management Association held an event on the ongoing Waste Shipment Regulation revision.

| Weibold Academy article series discusses periodically the practical developments and scientific research findings in the end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling and pyrolysis industry.

| Building renovation is a key contributor to improving energy efficiency and to achieving a climate neutral European Union (EU) by 2050.

| Parliament has rejected a motion to oppose the inclusion of nuclear and gas as environmentally sustainable economic activities.

| The EU Commission promotes the following hierarchy in its packaging policies: Reduce consumption, reuse & recycle.

| A year ago, on the 3rd of July 2021, was the deadline for the transposition of EU-wide bans and marking rules into national legal frameworks of the EU Single-use Plastics Directive (SUPD).

| On June 22, the members of the European Parliament (EP) have approved to include municipal incinerators in the scope of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as of 2026. This decision entails pricing fossil CO2 emissions from municipal waste incinerators.

| The European Waste-to-Energy sector is already carbon neutral today and with adequate political support it can become carbon negative in the future, according to the new CEWEP Waste-to-Energy Climate Roadmap presented on 21st June 2022 in Brussels.

| The Parties to the Basel Convention at their 15th meeting (COP15) held in Geneva agreed by consensus to the "Swiss-Ghana Amendments," establishing new definitions of hazardous and non-hazardous electronic waste, and ensured that both of these two categories of e-waste will either be banned from trade or at a minimum require notification by the exporting country and consent by the importing country prior to export.