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...

We welcome the European Commission's new Plastics Strategy which is vital if the EU is to develop a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-effecient, competitive Circular Economy and we set out our suggestions in each of the four pillars which, we, the European umbrella association representing public responsibility for waste, consider relevant to face the challenges in the transition to a circular economy for plastics.

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Following many months of deliberations internally to Municipal Waste Europe, we are now pleased to present our proposals for an EU Strategy on Plastics in a Circular Economy.

Please find here the position paper. 

Following many months of deliberations, both internally to Municipal Waste Europe and with a wide group of stakeholders encompassing all interests, we are now pleased to present the response which has been agreed to by ourselves, CEWEP and CEEP.

Please find the joint response here.