The Sustainable Finance Regulation should be used to ‘push’ the implementation of the top echelons of the Waste Hierarchy, particularly in jurisdictions where good governance is lacking, by facilitating
investment in activities supporting Waste Prevention and Separate Collection but the Regulation should also empower the environmentally sound treatment of the non-recyclable material, residual waste, thorugh non-hazardous waste incineration with energy recovery. CEWEP, ESWET,...

Most EU Member States are still dealing with the challenges presented by implementation of the previous revisions of the Waste Framework Directive. And despite efforts to reduce it, waste generation is still growing in the EU and many countries have failed to achieve the recycling and other targets. The next revision of the Waste Framework Directive, expected in 2023, should enhance waste prevention and pay serious attention to bulky waste, e-waste and textiles. MWE calls on the...

Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the Commission proposal for the revision of the Waste Shipments Regulation and the way in which it addresses the issue of illegal shipments as well as the creation of a digital notification system which is simultaneously accessible by all Member States and adaptable to existing national digital notification systems.

Our feedback and proposals identify loopholes which can still be closed in order to further inhibit illegal shipments while...

As the municipalities of Europe responsible for the collection of Municipal Waste, we have been discussing the concept of harmonising separate collection raised by the Green Deal and the second Circular Economy Action Plan at length. The collection of waste from multiple waste generators is a task which needs to be tailored to each locality, each demographic and each location’s unique climatic requirements. For this reason, waste collection is not something that can be designed at regional,...

MWE welcomes the European Commission's proposals on textiles set out in the Circular Economy Action Plan 2.0 (March 2020). Following the current discussions on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and in view of the upcoming adoption of the EU Strategy for Sustainable Textiles, MWE would like to raise a set of critical points to be into high consideration when an EPR scheme is applied to textiles. The position paper is available ...