A new publication provides essential guidance to all actors in the supply chain through simple ecodesign rules for paper products, without limiting innovation and the introduction of new techniques.
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If an ambitious announcement is made, it is bound to raise high expectations. Now the EU Commission will have to live with the fact that it was unable to fulfil these expectations with its new circular economy package. Nevertheless, the package is not a total failure, quite the contrary.
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According to a report by the World Economic Forum, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey, applying circular economy principles to global plastic packaging flows could transform the plastics economy and drastically reduce negative externalities such as leakage into oceans.
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The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced changes to EU financial tools today to help circular economy projects and businesses secure funding and support the realisation of EU climate goals, as UN climate negotiations draw to a close in Paris. The changes build on the EU’s Circular Economy Strategy launched last week and result from EIB recommendations published today at the Financing the Circular Economy conference hosted under Luxembourg’s Presidency of the EU.
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The European Recycling Industries Confederation (EuRIC) welcomes the publication of the circular economy package by the European Commission as a first step to support sustainable growth in Europe. Nevertheless, there is clear room for improvement on a number of topics, including recycling targets and their calculation method, stricter measures to phase out landfill and incineration of recyclables, the clarity of new provisions as legal certainty is crucial for recycling businesses.
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As announced earlier this year, the European Commission has published their new circular economy package today.
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Playing down the benefits of minimising landfilling, as recently done by some stakeholders, is a dangerous message ahead of COP21, particularly from a global perspective, CEWEP says.
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International Environment Council: Circular Economy package must “make sense for the recycling industry”
The European Commission’s Circular Economy package, expected to be unveiled on December 2 this year, should be ambitious as well as “market-driven” and should “make sense for the recycling industry”, insisted Emmanuel Katrakis, Secretary General of the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC), in addressing the BIR’s International Environment Council meeting in Prague on October 27.
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According to the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP), the Commission seriously questions undertaking any effective landfill diversion action in the upcoming new Circular Economy Package.
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Packaging Value Chain Industries launch joint recommendations for a resource-efficient Circular Economy
EUROPEN and 28 other associations representing a large range of industries and sectors including major consumer goods brands, packaging producers, material producers and extended producer responsibility (EPR) organisations, announced a set of joint recommendations for the new Circular Economy proposals expected from the European Commission by the end of 2015.
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A new report provides policy-makers with a ‘blueprint’ for raising household recycling rates now and into the future.
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