Our 2022 Annual Conference will be a unique opportunity to discuss how to ensure the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation lives up to its full potential, and to finally make sustainable products the norm everywhere.
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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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