The European Commission has recently published the Competitiveness Compass, its competitiveness strategy for the next 5 years, which proposes several pieces of legislation / action plans related to the circular economy.

The European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on vehicles and end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) presents a crucial opportunity to enhance circularity throughout the vehicle lifecycle and support climate neutrality goals.

The new EU packaging waste Regulation has been published in the Official Journal of the EU:

The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) expresses disappointment over the lack of a formal agreement after the latest round of negotiations in Busan (Republic of Korea) on a legally binding instrument to address plastic pollution.

EuRIC’s Plastics Recycling Branch (EPRB) has published a roadmap on the future of the European plastics recycling industry, as the latter is currently grappling with extremely low demand for recycled materials and with unfair competition from third countries that threaten circularity in Europe.

EuRIC has published its position on the future of the European steel industry, calling for measures that promote the use of recycled steel to achieve both environmental and economic resilience.

Two important studies on the issue have been published recently:

Study on the increasing demand for the critical raw materials used in electric vehicle batteries:

A study presenting two new technologies for the mechanical recycling of multilayer plastic films has been published by CIMPA.