Who pays for cleaning this?

on the topics of - critical raw materials and - EU 2030 -

As discussed inside Global WtERT Council we are now in the process of taking the small step towards the new website wasteculture.com. I am convinced that this also will help the common cause to foster WtE techniques who need more acceptance in society.

Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) forces Lidl to dutifully take back electronic waste

Abstracts From the BKAWE'25” are from Volume 2 of the series ‘Waste Management and Energy’ from TK Verlag

The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached last night between the European Parliament and the Council on the targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive.

Current deadline for the Single-Use Plastic Fund expires at the end of 2024

Publication and handover of a joint position paper to Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Bettina Hoffmann

Several associations are strongly concerned about the proposed changes and are asking for them to be withdrawn.

Major milestone reached for digital fund management – fund volume of up to 430 million euros expected annually

The Environment Committee adopted its proposals to better prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.

The past October 10th Governor Newsom signed the bill SB 244, the right- to repair legislation for consumer electronics

The regulation will regulate the entire life cycle of batteries – from production to reuse and recycling – and ensure that they are safe, sustainable and competitive.

‘The safety of workers is compromised, the damage to plant runs into millions’

On Wednesday, Parliament approved new rules for the design, production and waste management of all types of batteries sold in the EU.

The Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA) expresses its worries over the challenges that 18 Member States (MS) are facing in achieving the targets defined by the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) and Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD).

The REF Ricerche Laboratory has published the position paper “La produzione di rifiuti cresce più del PIL. Un confronto con l’Europa che conta” (Waste production grows more than GDP. A comparison with the Europe that counts).

New options for action for the green transformation

We are pleased to welcome Professor Hani Ahmad as the new representative in Jordan

ESWET welcomes the European Commission’s 2023 Work Programme and the renewal of the Green Deal’s ambitions.

With the focus of the resources and waste sector very much on protecting the environment and delivering on decarbonisation, the broader impacts and the benefits these bring to society are often overlooked or underplayed.

The top priority of waste management in accordance with the Austrian Waste Management Act is waste prevention (§ 1 (2) AWG), which takes place largely outside the waste regime. Still, it is a prime task of waste management authorities to encourage the actual actor, producers of goods and products and consumers, to engage in waste prevention.

The rapid development of the electronic industry in the post-industrial society contributes to the increase in the production volumes of chemical currentsources (CCS). This article is concerned with the extended producer responsibility (EPR) concept and the mechanisms of its implementation in the spent chemical current sources (SCCS management in Russia and in the EU countries. The EPR organization models for greening the SCCS lifecycle in these countries using the existing legal basis of the European Union and Russia are presented.

In January 2017, the Ontario Government began implementing North America’s first circular economy waste diversion regimei ("Circular Economy Framework"), which included Independent Producer Responsibility ("IPR").

The study by the bifa environmental institute describes a future-orientated view of the ecological and economic effects of photovoltaic (PV) systems along their whole life cycle.