Waste and recycling - Environment - European Commission
3 days ago · Waste and recycling Managing waste in an environmentally sound manner and making use of the secondary materials they contain are key elements of the EU’s environmental …
New rules to boost recycling efficiency from waste batteries
4 Iúil 2025 · The Commission published new rules on Friday for calculating and verifying recycling efficiency and the recovery of materials from waste batteries. Batteries play a crucial role in …
EU Ship Recycling Regulation: Evaluation and list update
19 Feabh 2025 · At the recycling stage, the quality of inventories is often insufficient. Evaluation next steps This evaluation precedes the entry into force of the Hong Kong Convention in June …
Study highlights positive environmental impacts of increasing ...
18 Meith 2025 · Increasing textile-to-textile recycling rates in the EU to 10% could achieve carbon savings of 440,000 tonnes per year, and conserve 8.8 billion cubic metres of water – making a …
Tech helps Egypt's informal recyclers build circular economy ...
14 Meith 2021 · For more than 70 years, Cairo’s zabbaleen (Arabic for waste collectors) have been gathering and recycling the city’s rubbish with an efficiency that would be the envy of …
Top 25 recycling facts and statistics for 2022
22 Meith 2022 · These 25 recycling facts and statistics show the state of plastic, paper, aluminum, glass, electronic and food recycling, and the progress the world has to make.
Commission consults on new rules for chemically-recycled ...
8 Iúil 2025 · The European Commission has launched a public consultation on rules for calculating, verifying and reporting recycled content in single-use plastic (SUP) beverage bottle …
4 charts to show why adopting a circular economy matters
4 Aib 2024 · In the circular economy scenario, which includes reducing waste and increasing recycling, the estimated costs would be less than $255 billion a year. This circular approach …
Implementation of the WEEE Directive - Environment ...
Discover information about the implementation of the waste electrical and electronic equipment Directive, including WEEE calculation tools.
Shanghai has tough new recycling rules - The World ...
3 Iúil 2019 · With a population of 1.4 billion and no formal recycling system, the country generates mountains of trash daily. But for the first time, from the start of July, Shanghai residents will be …