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Batteries have a crucial role to play in supporting renewable energy and decarbonising transport. However, they do come at a cost to the environment. In a new ECOS report, we set out our recommendations for the EU Battery Regulation and the European Commission’s Standardisation Request M/579.
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9 environmental organisations have sent a letter to EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen calling for an end on sales of new gas boilers through ecodesign.
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Recycling, and particularly plastics recycling, is not a panacea to our overuse of natural resources. However, it does have an important role to play in closing the loop, once prevention and reuse options have been exhausted. In a new ECOS report, we set out our recommendations for dealing with plastics recycling and how to close the loop for plastic waste.
ECOS welcomes the ambitious Circular Economy Package launched today by the European Commission
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The European Commission has today, 30 March 2022, set out plans to bring more sustainability to the textile industry - a sector which remains largely under-regulated. But civil society groups are alarmed that the much-anticipated text misses out key human rights aspects from its focus. With environmental and social sustainability being two sides of the same coin, it is a huge missed opportunity that a chapter of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles seems to have been lost.
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Construction products are essential components of the built environment that surrounds us, but they also have a huge environmental impact throughout their entire lifecycle. On 30 March, the European Commission will publish a proposal for the revision of the central piece regulating construction products: the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), which is expected to introduce a number of sustainability elements to align with the requirements of the European Green Deal. In the time of decarbonisation, the CPR is the lynchpin between energy-intensive industries and the built environment, two of the biggest contributors to EU emissions.
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