Repair is at the core of the engine that will power reuse and resource efficiency while contributing to dramatically decrease waste generation. It is known that a large number of items placed in waste bins and civic amenity sites hold the potential to be repaired or refurbished and thus reused. However, once inside the waste collection systems these items and valuable raw materials usually end up in the least preferable waste treatments or, in the best case, follow recycling streams. Action...

The Taxonomy Regulation should be used to ‘push’ the implementation of the top echelons of the Waste Hierarchy, particularly in jurisdictions where good governance is lacking, by facilitating investment in activities supporting Waste Prevention and Separate Collection but the Regulation should also empower the environmentally sound treatment of the non-recyclable material, residual waste, thorugh non-hazardous waste incineration with energy recovery. CEWEP, ESWET, FEAD and MWE...

Most EU Member States are still dealing with the challenges presented by implementation of the previous revisions of the Waste Framework Directive. And despite efforts to reduce it, waste generation is still growing in the EU and many countries have failed to achieve the recycling and other targets. The next revision of the Waste Framework Directive, expected in 2023, should enhance waste prevention and pay serious attention to bulky waste, e-waste and textiles. MWE calls on the...

Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the Commission proposal for the revision of the Waste Shipments Regulation and the way in which it addresses the issue of illegal shipments as well as the creation of a digital notification system which is simultaneously accessible by all Member States and adaptable to existing national digital notification systems.

Our feedback and proposals identify loopholes which can still be closed in order to further inhibit illegal shipments while...

As the municipalities of Europe responsible for the collection of Municipal Waste, we have been discussing the concept of harmonising separate collection raised by the Green Deal and the second Circular Economy Action Plan at length. The collection of waste from multiple waste generators is a task which needs to be tailored to each locality, each demographic and each location’s unique climatic requirements. For this reason, waste collection is not something that can be designed at regional,...