recycling
A circular economy has become a key model in the drive for countries to protect the environment while fostering economic growth. The main aim is to reuse and recycle existing materials and products for as long as possible. A new report by the Circular Economy Network (CEN) and the National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has compared the EU’s five biggest economies and their commitment to sustainable production and consumption. Here’s how Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Poland compare in terms of waste management, innovation and ecological sustai...
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MEPs have adopted a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) described as one of the most lobbied files to pass through the assembly in recent years. It has also been among the most contentious, and was nearly scotched during inter-governmental negotiations last month. The new law – backed by 476 lawmakers drawn from across the mainstream parties, with 129 voting against and 24 abstaining – stipulates that the annual average of nearly 190kg of wrappers, boxes, bottles, cartons and cans discarded generated annually by every EU citizen should be cut by 5% to 2030. This target rises to...
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National diplomats have endorsed a new European law on packaging waste, including provisions that would hold overseas producers to EU environmental standards on plastic recycling at the risk of losing market access. European Commission trade officials had taken the unusual step of lobbying governments directly to reject a so-called mirror clause in the draft law, warning of a serious potential impact on international commerce and diplomatic complications. To do so would have meant the EU Council reneging on the political agreement struck earlier this month with the European Parliament, possibl...
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There is a strong chance a new law designed to reduce the huge volumes of packaging that end up in landfill or incinerators could be blocked on Friday, according to several well-placed sources, despite a political agreement between the European Parliament and EU governments earlier this month. The EU’s legislative bodies agreed this month the text of a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) in back-room talks mediated by the European Commission, a forum known in Brussels as a trilogue. Official adoption should now be a formality, but the European Commission has refused to sign off...
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“I no longer recognize my city,” complains Genevieve. The Marseille native is sorry to see how dirty France’s second city has become. “People litter everywhere, on the roads, the pavement… It has never been a clean city but now we’re breaking records,” she says. The French Mediterranean port took the bronze medal of the dirtiest city in Europe, according to a report from the European Commission published early 2024. Palermo reached the top spot and Rome earned the silver medal among 83 cities surveyed. In Marseille, only 22 per cent of people are happy about the cleanliness of their city. Euro...
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Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the US state is struggling to get food recycling programmes up and running. The measures are so far behind that it's widely accepted next year's ambitious waste-reduction targets won't be met. Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like green waste emit methane, a gas more potent and damaging in the short term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels. California's goal is to keep that waste from piling up in landfills, instead turning it into compost or biogas. California food recycling plant files...
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