The European Commission has opened the call for strategic project applications under the Critical Raw Materials Act.

The European Commission has recently published the 2024 LIFE calls for proposals, including topics related to the circular ecomomy.

The industry responsible for sorting discarded textiles for reuse and recycling is on the brink of collapse across Europe, with urgent alarms ringing from the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. Without immediate intervention, this crisis will escalate, causing irreversible economic and environmental damage.

The Green Advisory Service for Sustainable Investments Support (Green Assist) is a new advisory initiative under InvestEU, funded from the LIFE programme.

The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) recently published report offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of play of the transition to a more circular economy in Europe and the strong policy push we have seen lately, together with options and prospects to further accelerate it.

Source: full EEA report available here

The Associations listed below are together calling for the complete ban of single-use e-cigarettes (vapes) by the end of 2024 due to the negative impact they have on communities, and the environment, and to the objectives of the circular economy.

In response to the ongoing negotiations on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), EuRIC, representing the recycling industry, urges legislators to protect Europe’s plastics recycling sector and immediately address the massive imports of plastics labelled as recycled.

ECHA maintains the largest chemicals database in the European Union (EU), combining industry-submitted data with information generated in the EU’s regulatory processes. ECHA CHEM is the new solution to share with the public the growing amount of information hosted by the Agency.