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...

MWE joins forces together with other associations to support an integrated waste management approach with an appropriate and sustainable interaction of source separation, reuse and recycling, energy recovery and environmentally sound disposal of waste that cannot be recovered. Cohesion funds are important instruments to help Member States that still have low recycling rates and depend heavily on landfills, to create a sustainable waste management system using...

Municipal Waste Europe becomes part of a broad coalition which urges the Council to support the binding target of at least 35% recycled plastic in beverage bottles by 2025. This target voted by the European Parliament on 24 October is instrumental in the achievement of the objectives of the Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive and in igniting the much supported transition towards a more circular economy. It would be a historical step, correcting a much...