Politics

The EU wastes more food than it imports, damaging EU food security amid the cost-of-living crisis, shows a new report from environmental organisation Feedback EU published today.

Today, the European Parliament voted its final position on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III).

According to recent research published by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE), the incineration of waste generates significant amounts of hazardous and non-hazardous residues, the majority of which are landfilled.

The European Plastics Converters (EuPC) is one of the seventeen partners of the European project “Plastics Recycling from and for Home Appliances, Toys and Textile (PRecycling)”, funded by the Horizon Europe research and innovation program.

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.

UK battery recycler Wastecare has welcomed the Environment Agency’s revised guidance on the classification of portable and industrial batteries, which was published last week.

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.