Politics

| 25 NGOs rebuff voluntary agreements to clean up the fashion industry, calling for the EU’s upcoming textile legislation to hold brands accountable for their contribution to global pollution.

| Fortum Oslo Varme's carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has made it through to the shortlist of candidates for financing from the EU’s €1 billion Innovation Fund.

| With almost one year of delay on the timetable set by the Singe-Use Plastics Directive, the long-awaited Guidelines have been finally published at the end of May 2021.

| Rewarding metal recycling environmental benefits and preserving free and fair trade of circular metals were among the key messages of Recyclers’ Talks #3 organised on 7 June 2021 by EuRIC.

| Shifting to a full circular clothing industry in the Netherlands won't just impact the environment—it can also bring employment benefits, boosting job creation by as much as 25%.

| In response to the EU’s zero-pollution ambition, FEAD has held an online debate on the role waste management can play in combining circular economy and zero-pollution objectives at EU level.

| The European Green Deal can easily be considered as the European Commission’s main current project.

| The European Commission is considering changes to EU waste shipment regulations that could prove to be of “tremendous importance” and potentially highly damaging to export flows of many recycling materials, including ferrous and non-ferrous metals, recovered paper and plastics, the latest online meeting of the BIR’s International Environment Council (IEC) was warned yesterday by its Chairman, Olivier François of Galloo.

| The Amendment to the Biowaste Ordinance (BioAbfV) meets with a lot of criticism among experts and associations because they think the requirements are technically unfeasible.

| The BIR today releases its 2020 Annual Report that highlights key recycling industry developments and data as well as the organization’s activities on behalf of its membership.

| With only a week for industry to respond to the consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Waste, UK’s compliance scheme Valpak has released detailed modelling for a range of the proposed options.

| Today, ECOS, Zero Waste Europe, and the Rethink Plastic alliance have sent a letter calling on the European Commission to put on hold...

| Today, the European Commission updated the EU Industrial Strategy.

| No time to waste to implement the ambitious strategy for sustainable textiles was one of the key messages of Recyclers’ Talks #2 organised on 4 May 2021 by EuRIC, in the framework of the EU Green Week.