Tag: Waste Framework Directive

• Delays to EU’s waste framework means serious concerns for textile reuse

  The continued uncertainty around the Waste Framework Directive means postponed investments, stalled partnerships, and a lack of operational clarity – at a time when volumes of textile waste is increasing, but managing capacity has not. Without rapid implementation, valuable reusable and recyclable materials will be lost and a whole industrial ecosystem, crucial to the circular transition, will collapse.

• Review of the EU’s Directives on waste

  The EU is not on track to reduce waste generation. We need more waste prevention - we cannot recycle our way out. This document summarises our review of the Waste Framework Directive and WEEE Directive's potential to support effective waste prevention.

• Waste Framework Directive – Sort recyclable materials from mixed waste before incineration and landfill

  The squandering of recyclable resources, losing their material value to incineration and landfilling, constitutes a significant yet avoidable hindrance to realising the circular economy. Though a further comprehensive revision of Waste Framework Directive (WFD) is anticipated, the ongoing revision should urgently address the incineration and landfilling of recyclable waste. This is pivotal for achieving municipal and packaging waste recycling targets, already enshrined in EU law for multiple years but challenging for many Member States.

• Joint letter | Expand the scope of the EU Waste Framework Directive

  NGOs and industry have written a joint letter to the European Parliament's Environment Committee to express their support for a limited expansion of the current scope of the proposal to revise the EU Waste Framework Directive.

• Joint statement on Extended Producer Responsibility for textiles

  The proposal for a targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive addresses some key waste streams in need of urgent attention. The proposed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles is a first step towards holding producers accountable for the products they place on the market. In our joint letter we point out some grave shortcomings of the proposal and call on policymakers to fully implement the 'polluter pays principle' to stem the tide of textile waste in the EU.