Municipal Waste Europe provides the European Commission with national studies on food waste as part of a biological waste management. The studies cover Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Flanders region (Belgium).

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Municipal Waste Europe believes that the draft guidelines do not distinguish between ‘prevention of waste’ and ‘prevention of waste being generated’. While the former is part of the waste treatment and is traditionally seen as ‘preparing for re-use’, the latter is not part of the waste management treatment. Municipal Waste Europe thinks that waste prevention should have secondary importance compared with diminishing environmental and human health impact as well...

The Bio-waste definition in the Waste Framework Directive (art 3.4) does not include other biological wastes from agriculture industries, green waste, manure, and sewage sludge. According to Municipal Waste Europe, all legislative discussions on bio-waste and biological treatment operations should include also these kind of biological wastes and take into proper account the future development of end-of-waste criteria for compost, the animal by-product regulation...

Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the revised Directive on waste. It supports the Directive when it states that waste management needs to be planned, prepared, as well as evaluated and assessed in a long-term perspective. Municipal Waste Europe welcomes the end-of-waste definition. It considers waste management plans, waste reduction plans, as well as the development of recycling and recovery targets an important contribution to a sustainable waste management...