EU Member States have significantly closed the gap to achieving the 2030 energy and climate targets, according to the European Commission’s assessment of the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs).
Politics
-
-
Against a background of global concerns about trade tariffs put in place and planned by the US administration, the BIR World Recycling Convention in Valencia has heard that eventually a 10% tariff level might prevail.
-
A new coalition on green public procurement (GPP) — Buy Better to Build Better (BBBB) — has been launched on May 20 at an event in the European Parliament. Bringing together 35 stakeholders from across the construction value chain, civil society, and public authorities, the coalition aims to make green public procurement the default approach in Europe’s construction sector.
-
European recyclers are facing a severe and deepening recession, with businesses being increasingly forced to shut down. This trend threatens to accelerate Europe’s deindustrialisation and undermines the EU’s environmental and circular economy goals. In response, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) has released a position paper outlining six strategic areas for immediate action that must be urgently applied to prevent the collapse of the European plastics recycling industry.
-
Politics
Coalition of stakeholders demand inclusion of circularity provisions in Clean Industrial Funding Framework
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.
-
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.
-
A new report released by Zero Waste Europe argues for bolder system-wide measures to address the EU’s material consumption. As the bloc prepares its much-anticipated Circular Economy Act, the report states that current policy measures are insufficient to reduce the absolute levels of resource use, a blindspot that threatens the EU’s strategic autonomy.
-
The European Commission’s first Working Plan for implementing the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) has been published. It confirms the list of priority products this policy will tackle first to improve their sustainability – with almost all products on the EU market due to be covered eventually. The list includes textile apparel, furniture, mattresses, tyres, iron and steel, and aluminium.
-
The environmental network’s study “Designing EPR to Foster the EU’s Competitiveness and Strategic Autonomy” analyses 30 years of EPR implementation and proposes a comprehensive framework to transform EPR systems into catalysts …
RECYCLING magazine provides independent, deeply investigated information about all aspects of secondary raw materials. The magazine has a long track record, it has a history of more than 70 years. more
RECYCLING magazine is a member of
© DETAIL Architecture GmbH
