The aim of this paper is to identify and group the EU-28 countries according to their advancement towards circular economy. CE indicators proposed by the European Commission were used for the analysis. Given the research subjects and after an analysis of the literature they were concluded to be...
In addition, the European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Plan as part of the European Green Deal. This provides strategies for better product design, promotes circular economy processes, encourages sustainable consumption, and aims to prevent waste while keeping resources in the EU ...
European Commission has put forward an action plan to develop a sustainable and circular bioeconomy that serves Europe’s society, environment and economy. The new bioeconomy strategy is part of the Commission’s drive to boost jobs, growth, and investment in the EU. It aims to improve and sca...
In identifying the material impacts, risks and opportunities to communicate – and therefore for sustainability reporting under the ESRS – the company also needs to assess the materiality of the issues. A sustainability issue becomes material to a company when it meets the materiali...
(Photo: DSD)The European Commission on 2 July adopted new proposals on its Waste Framework Directive, the Landfill Directive as well as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive aimed at turning Europe into a more circular economy and raising recycling levels among member states (for previous ...
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12th October: Josep Borrell, high representative of the Union for foreign affairs and security policy, and vice president (HR/VP), European Commission 10th November: Thierry Breton, European commissioner for the Internal Market Read more ...
The European Commission Circular Economy Action Plan aims at fostering a society based on sustainable production and consumption. Within this context, industrial organisations are called to implement a wide set of practices to drive this transition: manufacturing easy-to-repair and sustainable products, ...
The European Commission recently named the MMAtwo project as Project of the Month for its development of depolymerization for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). MMAtwo is an industry consortium funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innov
The circular economy package will now go back to the European Council where it can receive formal approval before being put into force. According to European Commission figures, the EU produced 2.5 billion tons of waste in 2014, of which household waste accounted for 8 percent. Higher national ...