Who pays for cleaning this?

The European Commission today tabled its revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the cornerstone of Europe’s climate policy that is designed to make polluters pay and drive industrial decarbonisation.

The French Parliament has approved legislation aimed at regulating the environmental impact of ultra-fast fashion, completing more than two years of legislative debate.

New Eurostat data released today exposes the scale of Europe’s overconsumption of electronics and the continued failure to properly collect and recycle e-waste.

France has implemented a new environmental labeling system for clothing, commonly referred to as the “EcoScore” and officially named “environmental cost” (coût environnemental), as part of national legislation aimed at measuring the impact of textile products.

The Delegated and Implementing Acts will support businesses in complying with new requirements.

on the topics of - critical raw materials and - EU 2030 -

As discussed inside Global WtERT Council we are now in the process of taking the small step towards the new website wasteculture.com. I am convinced that this also will help the common cause to foster WtE techniques who need more acceptance in society.

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) forces Lidl to dutifully take back electronic waste

Abstracts From the BKAWE'25” are from Volume 2 of the series ‘Waste Management and Energy’ from TK Verlag

The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached last night between the European Parliament and the Council on the targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive.

Current deadline for the Single-Use Plastic Fund expires at the end of 2024

Publication and handover of a joint position paper to Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Bettina Hoffmann

Several associations are strongly concerned about the proposed changes and are asking for them to be withdrawn.

Major milestone reached for digital fund management – fund volume of up to 430 million euros expected annually

The Environment Committee adopted its proposals to better prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.

The past October 10th Governor Newsom signed the bill SB 244, the right- to repair legislation for consumer electronics

The regulation will regulate the entire life cycle of batteries – from production to reuse and recycling – and ensure that they are safe, sustainable and competitive.

‘The safety of workers is compromised, the damage to plant runs into millions’

On Wednesday, Parliament approved new rules for the design, production and waste management of all types of batteries sold in the EU.

The Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA) expresses its worries over the challenges that 18 Member States (MS) are facing in achieving the targets defined by the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) and Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD).

The REF Ricerche Laboratory has published the position paper “La produzione di rifiuti cresce più del PIL. Un confronto con l’Europa che conta” (Waste production grows more than GDP. A comparison with the Europe that counts).

New options for action for the green transformation

We are pleased to welcome Professor Hani Ahmad as the new representative in Jordan

ESWET welcomes the European Commission’s 2023 Work Programme and the renewal of the Green Deal’s ambitions.

With the focus of the resources and waste sector very much on protecting the environment and delivering on decarbonisation, the broader impacts and the benefits these bring to society are often overlooked or underplayed.