Calling for an ambitious and comparable measurement point for glass recycling

The European Parliament and Council yesterday reached a provisional agreement on a Directive on port reception facilities for the delivery and processing of waste from ships. This was based on a Commission proposal of January 2018 part of the European strategy to reduce plastic waste. Violeta Bulc, Commissioner for Mobility and ...

Yesterday, Member States representatives endorsed the EU institutions' political agreement on new EU rules on fertilisers proposed by the Commission in 2016. The agreement, which is a key deliverable of the 2015 Circular Economy Action Plan, will facilitate the access of organic and waste-based fertilisers to the EU Single Market and introduce...

The European Commission launched an alliance of key industry stakeholders as part of its persisting efforts to reduce plastics littering, increase the share of recycled plastics and stimulate market innovation.The Circular Plastics Alliance will be a high-level, multi-stakeholder platform gathering key industry stakeholders covering the full plasti...

A dozen trade groups are urging the European Chemicals Agency to drop its plan to create a database of the most dangerous chemicals, known as ‘substances of very high concern‘. The database is obligatory under Article 9 of the Waste Framework Directive.The problem of managing chemicals in waste should be dealt with by the recy...

The ILSI Europe Packaging Materials Task Force has started off in 2000 a series of reports on Packaging Materials. Each report is dedicated to a major type of packaging material and aims at describing all essential aspects of their use to a non-specialised audience.Adhesives are indispensable in the production of food packaging. More than 80% ...