France

With many thanks to SEWACO s.r.o. our WasteCulture country lead for Czech Republic, we are proud to bring in some new ideas about knowledge management and how important energy recovery from waste is for GHG mitigation.

This study underscores the importance of strengthening data foundations and adopting consistent modelling approaches to support effective climate action in the waste sector.

France has implemented a new environmental labeling system for clothing, commonly referred to as the “EcoScore” and officially named “environmental cost” (coût environnemental), as part of national legislation aimed at measuring the impact of textile products.

ValcopIA is the latest French MRF opened last July and sets the standards for sorting centres in France.

MARTIN GmbH and LAB won a contract to help renovate the SAKO Waste-to-Energy plant in Brno, Czech Republic.

The two governments are committed to the rapid ratification and implementation of the UN Convention for the Protection of the High Seas, a UN agreement to stem the tide of plastic waste, a precautionary pause in deep-sea mining, the decarbonization of shipping and strong marine research.

It is the first in the world capable of taking commercial volumes of blended textiles and turning them into recycled cellulose and PET inputs for next season’s textiles

Decoset has awarded SUEZ and Banque des Territoires a 20-year concession contract for the management of two waste-to-energy plants in the Toulouse area.

Of the 30,000 fast food restaurants and six billion meals served per year, two million tonnes of waste were generated in the country.

Expected ban of disposable e-cigarettes (“puffs”) in France

The French Parliament has approved legislation aimed at regulating the environmental impact of ultra-fast fashion, completing more than two years of legislative debate.

More than 50 cities across the world have joined UNEP's new 50@50 activation to confront one of the world’s fastest-growing and deadliest climate risks: extreme heat.

G7 final declaration sends important signals to combat the climate crisis, the waste crisis and the crisis of species extinction

In this study, we present long-term, in situ, near-surface, mobile atmospheric CH4 mole fraction measurements (complemented by meteorological measurements from a fixed station) from 21 campaigns that cover approximately 4 years from September 2016 to December 2020.

18 Member States are at risk of missing one or both of the 2025 targets.

"Sustainable Waste Management: The Forefront of Innovation" was the topic under which Prof. Marco Castaldi's organising team gathered a wide range of presentations from around the world:

Over the last few years, global energy demand has risen, and this trend is expected to continue. Almost all European Union (EU) countries are suffering from a shortage of energy services. Annually, EU fossil fuel energy production falls; for example, in 2014, gas production fell by 11.2% compared to 2013. Energy imports, especially natural gas, have increased as a result of lower energy output. The EU is still heavily reliant on fossil fuel imports (oil and gas), and the cost of EU energy imports in 2017 increased by 26% (€266 billion).

Hospital and medical wastes are disposed in tens of thousands of dedicated incinerators or are autoclaved to destroy pathogens and then landfilled. However, over a hundred cities which have waste to energy (WTE) power plants fueled by municipal solid waste, use these plants to co-combust medical wastes. This report identified forty one such plants, located in a dozen nations, which in total co-combust about 90,000 tons of medical waste annually. The medical waste represented an average of 2.4% of the total amount of wastes combusted in these WTE power plants. Generally, the medical wastes are collected at the point of origin in puncture resistant, leakproof and sealed containers which are transported to WTE plants and are mechanically conveyed to the WTE furnace.

As reflected in the proposals included in the “Fit for 55” climate package, sustainable waste management may contribute to the European goals of emissions reduction. Waste-to-Energy has an instrumental role in the treatment of non-recyclable waste.

Bulgaria: Disposal of the most dangerous locations with buried pesticides

This Outlook can help decision-makers understand the direction in which we are heading and help to assess which policies can support a more circular economy. The OECD stands ready to assist governments in making this transition by designing, developing and delivering better resource efficiency policies for better lives.

Our Crowd Sourcing Campaign is supported by the global WtERT network, represented by seventeen organizations from thirteen countries.

A report by Ecologic Institute and Climact shows that the draft National Energy and Climate Plans presented by governments at the start of 2019 are in acute need of improvement. They suffer from inadequate targets and insufficient details on the policies and financing needed to move towards net-zero emission economies in Europe. Member States also need to do better in involving their national stakeholders in providing input to the plans, to benefit from their expertise and to get them on board for future policies. Good practice examples exist around the EU to serve as inspiration for the final plans due by the end of the year.

The 2018 bi-Annual EEC/WTERT conference was held this year at The City College of New York hosted by The Earth Engineering Center at City College (EEC|CCNY). The conference brought together the best minds in academia, industry, and government representing 12 countries across five continents to discuss important current topics in waste.

Summary of WtERT-France's activities, international networking, plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences and publications from 2018.