Tag: raw materials

• EU Raw Materials Coalition assessment of the RESourceEU Action Plan

  RESourceEU: Security without safeguards Is no security at all. Read our joint position paper, part of the EU Raw Materials Coalition. This coalition is a civil society alliance of over 60 organisations working to ensure Europe’s raw materials policies are socially just, environmentally responsible and grounded in reduced resource consumption.

• Trading raw materials responsibly

  Global trade rules on raw materials are underpinned by standards. Those who set them decide who trades, whose practices are legitimised, whose voices count, and how resources are governed. Trade rules and related standards must be worthy of people and planet. Our factsheet shows how.

• ECOS Position paper – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste

  ECOS publishes a position paper on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation ahead of the negotiations in the European Parliament and Council, aiming to see the European proposal improved.

• EU bio-based, biodegradable & compostable plastics framework: can recommendations help control pollution?

  On 30 November, the European Commission will publish its Circular Economy Action Plan. It includes a framework indicating in which cases it makes sense to use bio-based, biodegradable or compostable plastics. Spoiler alert: applications should be extremely limited. Can these recommendations be of true help against plastic pollution?