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Mechanical tyre recycling has a strong untapped potential in Europe

11 July 2023
Tyre recycling brings significant environmental benefits that are well-documented and are entirely in line with the objectives to transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular economy[1]. In the EU, end-of-life tyre have been since many years ...
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Free allocation needs to incentivise circularity for the EU to reach net zero

04 May 2023
In the concept note of its Expert Group on Climate Change Policy, the Commission is proposing an extension of the hot metal benchmark to direct reduced iron (DRI) that will lead to wildly different allocation amounts depending on the feedstock and...
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Recommendations for an environmentally ambitious Construction Products Regulation (CPR)

25 April 2023
Construction products represent some of the highest energy and carbon intensive products on the EU market, averaging to a carbon footprint of 250 million tonnes every year. In addition to CO2 emissions, construction products require 1.6 billion to...
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European Parliament ban on plastic exports to significantly impair European plastic recycling unless complementary measures are taken

17 January 2023
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on 17 January 2023 on the Commission’s proposal for a Waste Shipment Regulation which has both positive and negative repercussions for plastics recycling. While many adaptations will facilitate recyclin...
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European recycling industry calls for unhampered trade for raw materials from recycling under the Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR)

30 November 2022
The procedures for the export of recycled materials still classified as waste laid down in the Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) are burdensome, costly, and time-consuming. European recyclers are therefore in favour of an ambitious revision of the W...
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Joint open letter of EuRIC, FEAD and CEWEP for a green recovery

06 May 2020
EuRIC, the European Recycling Industries Confederation, issues a joint call together with FEAD and CEWEP to put the Green Deal and the new Circular Economy Action Plan at the forefront the post COVID-19 recovery. Cinzia VEZZOSI, President of EuRI...
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