WasteCulture's collaborator Helena Oliveira met with Yuri Schmitke, president of ABREN, to talk about various aspects of waste management in Brazil.

Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider and California Governor Gavin Newsom met today at the Munich Security Conference to spotlight the national and economic security risks of climate change and highlight how the transition to clean energy reduces risk while protecting communities and growing economies.

How can our built environment become healthier, more climate-friendly, and more resource-efficient?

With EU leaders meeting on 12 February to discuss competitiveness, civil society organisations are sounding the alarm.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released its 2025 Annual Report today, highlighting progress made last year on key environmental challenges through international cooperation despite ongoing global geopolitical tensions.

Following a vote by Parliament, the EU will have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% in 2040 compared with 1990 levels, to achieve a climate neutral EU by 2050.

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

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, today elected Ambassador Julio Cordano, of Chile, as the next INC Chair during the third part of the fifth session (INC-5.3).

On 4 February, EuRIC, FEAD, MWE, CEWEP, CEMR, Eurocities, and the EESC united for an all-day event at the European Economic and Social Committee to address the gap in EU waste legislation implementation.

The carbon that is currently being downcycled does not contribute to the defossilization of the chemical industry; in fact, it is a waste of carbon.

New study exposes Europe’s hidden methane impact from landfills and the risk of making it worse through incoherent climate policy.

From raincoats to cosmetics, from medical devices to car batteries: PFAS is all around us. Using our know-how and expertise, we take our responsibility to eliminate these harmful and persistent substances from society with a minimum of impact on environment and people. We firmly advocate a more systemic solution, including better inventories of the spreading and eventually the phase-out of PFAS altogether.

ValcopIA is the latest French MRF opened last July and sets the standards for sorting centres in France.

Emissions trading proves its worth as a driver of cost-effective, energy-efficient technologies

Hapag-Lloyd has announced that Effective February 16, 2026 a completed Letter of Indemnity (LOI) is mandatory for shipments of plastic scraps and metal scraps

By recognizing all three options for defossilization (biomass, recycling, CCU) as equivalent, as well as the equivalence of mechanical and chemical recycling of plastics and biomass, the economy would have the opportunity to develop technology competition and select the most economically advantageous options.