About 20 thousand tons of plastic flowed in the river per year. Solely this river contributed 2% of the total plastics in the oceans.

Reducing the use of PFAS —known as forever chemicals— in clothing, furniture and other textile products, is important to increase recyclability and the transition to a more circular economy according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today.

Several associations are strongly concerned about the proposed changes and are asking for them to be withdrawn.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

A new form of pollution is conquering the Swiss environment and creating challenges for waste management: disposable e-cigarettes.

German Federal Environmental Foundation provides roughly 160,000 euros in funding for project at Leibniz University Hannover’s Institute of Plastics and Circular Economy.

G7 final declaration sends important signals to combat the climate crisis, the waste crisis and the crisis of species extinction

The Waste Characterization Handbook provides a practical guide for planning and conducting municipal waste characterization studies to understand waste composition and use these data to design data driven methane mitigation strategies. It explains study planning, sampling, field procedures, and data analysis, and includes an Excel tool that helps visualize results and feed them into GMI tools such as SWEET, the AD Screening Tool, and the Landfill Gas Screening Tool for evaluating mitigation options.

On Monday, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on revamped rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging, increase safety and boost the circular economy.

On Tuesday, Parliament approved updated EU procedures and control measures for waste shipments.

The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) today priced a seven-year $100 million, principal-protected Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond.

A number of problematic marketing habits related to greenwashing and the early obsolescence of goods will be added to the EU list of banned commercial practices.