Waste

A new body claiming to represent 90% of Spanish manufacturers and distributors of agricultural plastic will launch a producer responsibility scheme next year to raise collection and recycling rates for non-packaging plastics used in Spanish agriculture, it emerged last week

The metals industry has called for ‘less restrictive’ EU policy if the bloc is to support the green transition technologies vital to its climate pledges

Anti-rubbish campaigners at Zero Waste Europe have described the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) as a ‘nice patchwork of initiatives pointing in the right direction’, but industry groups have shown mixed reactions to the latest instalment of the European Green Deal

The European Commission unveiled a new action plan on a circular economy, including proposals to tackle plastic pollution and plans for a new 'right to repair'. Here's what you need to know

Scientists have voiced concern over the EU’s 'ineffective' policies to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, warning of the 'systemic failures' of the linear economy and rise of bio-plastics