ECOS and 47 organisations have signed an open letter to EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, calling for urgent action in order to tackle the waste crisis. The signatories criticise the narrow scope of the latest revision of the Waste Framework Directive and identify key areas for further development. NGOs urge the Commission to adopt legally binding, European-level quantitative targets for municipal solid waste prevention.
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NGO-Business Coalition supports the objection to the draft Implementing Act for the calculation of recycled plastic content in single-use plastic beverage bottles
Continue readingTogether with 100+ NGOs, academics, think tanks, and trade unions, ECOS calls for an EU legislation on Sustainable Resource Management. This collective endorsement reflects a shared commitment to address the core challenges driving global crises and to champion an EU that thrives within planetary boundaries.
Continue readingThe time has come to adopt sufficiency across Europe. Together with 75 European organisations, we call for sufficiency to become a central part of the EU’s strategic agenda.
Download the documentNGO-business coalition calls on the decision-makers to consider a real compromise by voting for a “polymer-only" allocation method to account for recycled content in the implementing decision of the Single-Use Plastic Directive (SUPD).
Continue readingAhead of 4 March 2024, when negotiators aim to reach an agreement on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), ECOS and 29 environmental NGOs and coalitions urge the EU to agree to ambitious measures to reduce the amount of problematic, avoidable, and unnecessary single-use packaging in the EU.
Read the letterAhead of the first trilogue for the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), we are asking negotiators to address hazardous substances in packaging materials in the upcoming discussions and maintain the ambition of the EU’s Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.
Continue readingA group of seventeen NGOs wrote to the European Parliament's ENVI committee with recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Detergent Regulation. This is an important opportunity to improve requirements for detergents and minimise harmful effects on human health and the environment.
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