ECOS has joined environmental NGOs and the European Commission in dismissing any attempts at weakening and derailing the effective implementation of the SUP Directive.
After three years of intense research within a diverse consortium, the STAR-ProBio project has come to an end. The partners presented the project's results at an online final conference on 28 April.
In order to support the implementation of the expected legislative and policy initiatives under the Circular Economy Action Plan, robust and reliable methods will need to be used. Our new paper shows that the standardisation system has the potential to offer those services in a wide range of sectors, as long as the methods delivered are appropriate and come in a timely manner.
As part of the Taxonomy Regulation, the EU has reflected on the identification of “environmentally sustainable” economic activities in order to channel public and private investments towards these activities.
As the European Commission is poised to start developing a new ‘comprehensive strategy for textiles’ in the coming months [1], today a group of 65 diverse civil society organisations has set out its vision [2] for the global Textile, Garments, Leather and Footwear (TGLF) sector. They have done so by releasing a non-official (or “shadow”) strategy in which they propose a set of legislative and non-legislative actions that the EU can undertake to contribute to fairer and more sustainable TGLF value chains.
The European Commission’s recently unveiled Circular Economy Action Plan presents a renewed commitment to a transition towards more sustainable production and consumption.
The Alliance for Flame Retardant Free Furniture welcomes the New Circular Economy Action Plan and calls on the EU institutions to address the unnecessary and unwanted use of chemicals which prevent circularity and climate goals, such as toxic flame retardants in furniture. They directly endanger people’s health, as they migrate out of products and may lead to an increase in fire toxicity.
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