Press release | Today, Europe’s Environment Ministers bowed to the automotive industry by voting to weaken a crucial regulation to make the automotive sector more circular, warn environmental NGOs.
Industry and environmental organisations, including ECOS, call for measures to improve the reuse and high-quality recycling of materials and components from end-of-life vehicles in a joint letter.
Until now, vehicles have been a model for repairability, often in operation for decades. This is rapidly changing due to overly restrictive vehicle design requirements that prevent more sustainable options, more electronic components, and less access to low-cost spare parts. How could a new EU regulation help the automotive sector make a U-turn?
The repairability of vehicles is declining - and we want to change that. ECOS has signed a joint statement on repair in the proposed EU regulation on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles. We call for stronger provisions for repair and reuse to strengthen consumers’ choice, local jobs and businesses, and European strategic autonomy, as well as ensure compliance with the waste hierarchy and reduce environmental strain.
When you hear ‘car pollution’, what is the first thing that comes to mind? People usually think of exhaust emissions – the truth we can’t deny! But there is another major hidden polluter – tyres.
A broad coalition of 39 environmental, health and consumer associations from across Europe calls on the European Commission to ensure that all new trucks are zero-emission by 2035 at the latest.
Ahead of the European Commission's review proposal at the end of 2022, we have selected eight key highlights of ECOS recommendations for the revision of the End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive and the corresponding Directive on 3R type-approval.
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