Business-NGO Coalition supports the motion objecting to the Commission’s draft Implementing Act on the calculation of recycled content in single-use plastic beverage bottles.

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Starting January 2025, the EU will mandate the separate collection of textiles, requiring Member States to introduce Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. While this is a significant step towards circularity, it also presents risks and challenges that need to be addressed to ensure the successful implementation of EPR schemes. Municipalities and social enterprises play a crucial role in mitigating these risks and ensuring that EPR schemes align with EU legislation while...

27 February, MWE co-signed a joint statemnt with WEEE Labex, EBRA Recycling, FEAD, FERVER, CEWEP, EERE and EURIC for the immediate ban of single-use e-...

On 5 July the European Commission came up with a proposal to amend the Waste Framework Directive to integrate new provisions on food waste prevention and textiles. Beginning with the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, the European institutions and stakeholders have deepened discussions and analysis of the whole value chain of textile products, aiming at finding solutions to the increasing consumption of textiles, related social and pollution problems worldwide and challenges...

MWE, EBA, GD4S and eurogas welcome the objective of the Commission’s Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down a framework to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. However, the main focus is on solar energy, wind energy and technologies based on heat pumps, omitting biogas and biomethane. Read the paper...