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Global PRESS RELEASE: Mandatory separate collection targets are not the way forward to drive a circular economy Addressing the European Parliament’s proposal, a part of their amendments to the PPWR proposal, which advocates for the introduction of a mandatory target of 90% for the separate collection of […] EXPRA · 24 Jan 2024 Global What’s the beef with alternative proteins? The post What’s the beef with alternative proteins? appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 23 Jan 2024 Global PRESS RELEASE: EU packaging rules that work Making the Single Market and sustainability go hand in hand More than 100 associations, including EXPRA, representing Europe’s packaging industry, have written to EU Member States, urging them to uphold the Single Market or face huge supply chain disruptions when […] EXPRA · 23 Jan 2024 Global PRESS RELEASE: EXPRA’s position on the conceptual introduction of “state-run PRO” in the 1.12.23 version of the Spanish Presidency’s compromise text on PPWR, December 2023 Position Paper: State-run PROs” are another form of tax and cannot be considered as EPR since they contradict the General minimum requirements for EPR schemes (Art 8a of the WFD)SummaryEXPRA […] EXPRA · 23 Jan 2024 Global The Clean Oceans through Clean Communities (CLOCC) Programme Update ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 23 Jan 2024 Global Achieving a deeper understanding of flexible packaging sorting with NIR – Q&A with Dawn Manjaji, NTCP, about CEFLEX’s extensive test programme A process engineer at the Dutch National Test Centre for Circular Plastics (NTCP), Dawn Manjaji, shares insights from a recent industrial Near-Infrared (NIR) study conducted for CEFLEX, which shows how different designs of flexible packaging affect sortability CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging) · 22 Jan 2024 Global The greenwashing effect of GWP* – the new methane metric pushed by Big Agriculture The post The greenwashing effect of GWP* – the new methane metric pushed by Big Agriculture appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 22 Jan 2024 Global LA ASOCIACIÓN PORTUGUESA DE GESTORES DE RESIDUOS ESPECIALES CÍRCULO SE INCORPORA A FEAD The post LA ASOCIACIÓN PORTUGUESA DE GESTORES DE RESIDUOS ESPECIALES CÍRCULO SE INCORPORA A FEAD appeared first on FEAD - European Waste Management Association . FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 22 Jan 2024 Global FEAD suma una nueva asociación portuguesa: CÍRCULO The post FEAD suma una nueva asociación portuguesa: CÍRCULO appeared first on FEAD - European Waste Management Association . FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 19 Jan 2024 Global First episode of the Redemption Podcast Reloop North America’s new podcast series, Redemption is live. Reloop Platform · 19 Jan 2024 Global EDITORIAL: ⏩ EU in Override 🏃The Good, the Bad, and the Sprint Towards the Finish Line 19.01.2024: Brussels goes into centrifuge mode. As EU lawmakers rush to close Green Deal files in one of the latest plenaries of the legislature, Von der Leyen’s administration prepares the latest tracks for its climate legacy: the 2040 targets. All this unfolds under the hectic coordination of the Belgian presidency of the EU Council,… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 19 Jan 2024 Global EuRIC Unveils EU Recyclers’ Priorities for 2024 – 2029 EuRIC, the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation, has revealed its strategic priorities for 2024-2029, aimed at integrating recycling into Europe’s broader industrial and environmental agenda. Aligned with circular economy goals and emphasising the symbiotic relationship between circularity and climate policies, EuRIC advocates for a paradigm shift in how Europe approaches recycling. Key… Global Recycling · 19 Jan 2024 Global EU Legislators Voted to get Rid of Needless Mercury [Brussels 17 January 2024] EU lawmakers’ vote today in the first plenary week of the year confirms the European Parliament’s willingness to effectively put an end […] European Environmental Bureau · 18 Jan 2024 Global Reciclaje y gestión de residuos The post Reciclaje y gestión de residuos appeared first on FEAD - European Waste Management Association . FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 18 Jan 2024 Global ISWA Welcomes Canvest Environmental as our Newest Silver Member ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 18 Jan 2024 Global Zero Waste Europe Changemakers: Oekozenter Pafendall Luxembourg This month, we present you Oekozenter Pafendall, which celebrated one year as a ZWE Associated member. As part of the ZWE Changemakers’ campaign, every month we spotlight one of our member organisations, showcasing the impactful local work they contribute and aiming to inspire you. Based in Luxembourg, Oekozenter Pafendall is a non-profit organisation and eco-center […] Zero Waste Europe · 18 Jan 2024 Global Navigating misinformation: the raw truth about Big Meat This year a lot has changed, but scientific reality has not: to halt the climate crisis, we must transform global food systems. One crucial dimension of this transformation is the role of animals in agriculture. By shifting to healthier, more sustainable diets, the benefits to farmers, farm workers, health, nature, and animal welfare would be enormous! So, what’s preventing action? Ben Snelson … META (European Environmental Bureau) · 18 Jan 2024 Global New EU law empowers consumers against corporate greenwashing The EEB welcomes the restriction of misleading green claims and labels, but urges action against barriers to repair Today, the European Parliament gave its final greenlight […] European Environmental Bureau · 17 Jan 2024 Global Joint statement on Green Claims The undersigned associations recognise that, given that consumers can only make more sustainable choices if they have access to reliable, comparable, and verifiable information, it is therefore crucial to ensure that claims made by traders are backed by sufficient evidence while products deliver the environmental benefits that they claim to have. Indeed, the transition to […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 17 Jan 2024 Global Members publish Open Letter following pellet spill in Northern Spain Coastlines across Northern Spain in the region of Galicia, have been hit with an influx of plastic pellet bags that have washed up on shorelines, after a Maersk cargo ship passing through the Fisterra corridor lost six of its containers. #BreakFreeFromPlastic members and environmental organisations throughout the region have been closely monitoring the situation after […] Break Free From Plastic · 17 Jan 2024 Global 4evergreen announces new chair and co-chair as alliance commits to renewed programme of circularity endeavours Brussels, January 17, 2024 – Today 4evergreen, Europe’s value chain alliance of over 110 members building a toolbox to propel fibre-based packaging towards a 90% recycling rate by 2030, appoints a new Chair and Co-Chair to lead the alliance. Chair Sarah Price, Director of Sustainability at... 4evergreen (fibre packaging alliance) · 17 Jan 2024 Global Greece Evihe info@evihe.com CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 17 Jan 2024 Global New NIR insights provide rigorous data for flexible packaging design and sorting – Sandra Beckamp, Institut cyclos‑HTP GmbH Sandra Beckamp, Managing Director at Institut cyclos-HTP GmbH, discusses how a unique and in-depth Near-Infrared (NIR) study showed how different designs of flexible packaging affect recognition and sortability. CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging) · 17 Jan 2024 Global Reloop joins UK call for manifesto DRS promise to be kept Reloop joined the drinks industry and environmental charities to call on the UK Prime Minister to keep his party’s manifesto promise of including glass bottles in the UK's deposit return system. Reloop Platform · 16 Jan 2024 Global Metro Nashville Tests Residential Food Scraps Collection The Division of Waste Services within Metro Water Services, part of the metropolitan government in Nashville, Tennessee, initiated a pilot residential food scraps collection program for 750 single-family homes in October 2023. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global SG Bunker Composting Facility Opens On Staten Island The New York City (NYC) Department of Sanitation (DSNY) cut the ribbon on the expanded composting facility it owns at the closed Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global Not A Rosy State Of Recycling Report The Recycling Partnership (TRP) released “State of Recycling: The Present and Future of Residential Recycling in the U.S.” on January 10, and the picture it paints is anything but rosy. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global Connections: Food Waste And Landfill Methane Report — A Giant Step On A Long Road U.S. EPA’s October 2023 report on methane emissions from landfilled food waste makes a definitive statement about cause and effect. The evidence would be even more compelling if newer data had been used. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global EPA Seeks Public Comments On Latest WARM Model The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched the Waste Reduction Model (WARM) in 1998, and it has been updated and expanded 15 times since then. It is seeking public comment through February 9, 2024 on its latest version. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global CalRecycle Announces Latest Organics Recycling Grant Awards The latest round of grants awarded through the California Climate Investments’ Organics Grant Program were announced by CalRecycle in mid-December. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global Consumer Perceptions Of Date Labels The Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability’s November 2023 survey explored consumer perceptions of food date labels and risk of foodborne illnesses. BioCycle · 16 Jan 2024 Global European Bioplastics EU Policy Manifesto Open the document The recent EU Bioeconomy Strategy Progress Report (2022)* provides the most relevant and publicly available data on the EU’s biobased chemicals, pharma, plastics, and rubber sector. According to the report, the role of bioeconomy sectors in generating economic wealth has improved in the past decade in the EU-27. One of [...] European Bioplastics News · 16 Jan 2024 Global Voices of Resilience: Insights from the First Roma Environmental Justice Conference Last autumn, the EEB and the ERGO Network collaborated to host the inaugural Environmental Justice Conference for Roma communities in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In this article Ruby Silk and Diego Marin showcase several conference highlights and demonstrate its importance for progressing environmental justice for Roma. This event arose as a natural response to the EU’s recognition of environmental j… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 15 Jan 2024 Global EEB Meets the Environment Ministers: New Pact on the Horizon? Brussels, 15.01.2024 – We would like to express our appreciation for the Belgian Presidency’s emphasis on climate adaptation, circular economy, and the just transition—the latter an area […] European Environmental Bureau · 15 Jan 2024 Global EDITORIAL: 🎆 HISTORY IN THE MAKING 🎆Happy new year!🎆 12.01.2024: This week, we look ahead to 2024, a year shaping up to be gripping—if not historic. Elections taking place in the EU and around the globe are set to define our common future. In Brussels, we promise to keep an eye on the incoming EU representatives, and before that, on those super important and urgent green laws that the Belgian presidency must push through while… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 12 Jan 2024 Global Way open towards strengthening the EU Mercury Regulation Yesterday, the Environment Committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament set the pace by adopting the Commission’s proposal to ban dental amalgam as early as 1 January […] European Environmental Bureau · 12 Jan 2024 Global The Unbearable Complexity of Defining Recycling by Kalle Saarimaa, CEO Tana Oy What is recycling and how can it be measured? This question may sound quite trivial at first but on a closer look turns out to be rather complex – and vital. Why is this question complex? At the societal level, recycling is measured in various ways depending on your […] Global Recycling · 12 Jan 2024 Global PRC Europe 2024: Where Downstream Leaders Meet To Shape The Future Downstream leaders, including oil and chemical companies, EPCs, licensors, refineries and petrochemical plants gather at the Petrochemical and Refining Congress: Europe 2024 to network with potential partners and define technological perspectives to lead downstream transformation. The Congress is held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 13-14 May. In 2024, the annual networking event, PRC Europe is c… Global Recycling · 12 Jan 2024 Global 2024: a year that will decide the future The European Green Deal faces a fork in the road—between the politics of hope and the politics of fear—as the June elections loom. This article was co-written by Patrick ten Brink, Faustine Baz-Defossez and Christian Skrivervik, and was originally published by Social Europe. This year was a turning point for the European Green Deal, where hope turned into frustration and deep concern. The next … META (European Environmental Bureau) · 11 Jan 2024 Global Press release: Marco Eikelenboom, CEO of Sappi Europe is the incoming Chairperson of Cepi As of January 2024, Marco Eikelenboom, CEO of Sappi Europe takes over as Chairperson of Cepi from his predecessor Ilkka Hämälä, CEO of Metsä Group. Cepi is a leading and influential trade association in the forest and bio-based industry sector. It is headquartered in Brussels, the capital of the European Union from where Mr. Eikelenboom […] CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 11 Jan 2024