Position papers
Responses to the EC consultation on the revision of the waste targets, 10 September 2013
Please find here Municipal Waste Europe's responses to the EC consultation on the revision of the waste targets
Position Paper on the Green Paper on Plastic Waste, 7 June 2013
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 amendments on the Committee of the Regions (CoR) draft opinion on the revision of the waste targets, 6 June 2013
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...
Letter on ban on the landfilling of recyclable and combustible waste
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 ...
MWE Strategy Paper on resource-efficiency
Municipal Waste Europe published a paper on the essential role municipalities and their waste management companies play in making the EU resource-efficiency strategy a success.
Whereas resource-efficiency is ever more important in a world of economic and planetary constraints, this not only requires sustainable production processes, it also calls for coordinated action plans to recover the resources in products and materials...