Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the Roadmap for a new Soil Thematic Strategy but calls on the European Commission to strengthen a set of crucial points. MWE's response highlights the relevant role of biowaste management in contributing to healthier soils and circular economy. The response is available here.

In view of the start of the inter-institutional negotiations among the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission, Municipal Waste Europe issues a position paper to bring clarity to the conditionality that applies to utilising the regional and cohesion funds in the version of the text following first reading in Parliament with regard to waste management. The position paper is available...

As representatives of waste manegement we are pleased to co-sign the  Circular Plastics Alliance Declaration as we agree with its intentions however we find that its ambitions are not high enough. In this light, in addtition to the pledges made in the declaration, we, the European umbrella association reprsenting public responsibility for waste, issue an accompanying statement highlighting what we expect the Alliance to work on, above and beyond the pledges in the declaration...

MWE joins forces together with other associations to support that a sustainable investment should respect the waste hierarchy and follow the integrated waste management approach with an appropriate and sustainable interaction of quality recycling, efficient energy recovery and environmentally sound disposal of waste that cannot be recovered. Therefore, in order to ensure that the framework for sustainable investment does not impede on needed residual waste...