The President of Municipal Waste Europe, Weine Wiqvist, highlights that: ‘Embedding producers’ awareness of the importance of cradle to cradle thinking in their company strategy, through a policy of Extended Producer Responsibility, has been of profound importance on the route towards a sustainable, cyclical economy. The next step is to achieve awareness of the indispensible role of Municipalities in this cycle, in retrieving the resources...

Please find here Municipal Waste Europe's responses to the EC consultation on the revision of the waste targets

Municipal Waste Europe Welcomes the European Commission’s action in the area of plastics waste management and offers the present paper as input to the deliberation process, with the aim of assisting the identification of workable and effective solutions.

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Municipal Waste Europe congratulated the Committee of the Regions rapporteur, Mr. Lebrun, on his excellent draft opinion on the Review of the European Union’s key waste targets and added some detailed comments with the request that they are included in the opinion as a clarification of the excellent points raised, given the benefit of our members’ practical knowledge of waste management.

Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the emphasis in the report on the...

Municipal Waste Europe co-signed a letter addressed on 13 May 2013 to the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso calling for a ban on the landfilling of recyclable and combustible waste. Please find the letter ...