The Close the Glass Loop initiative aims to achieve a 90% glass collection for recycling rate.
Its Annual Event 2026 brings together the entire glass packaging value chain to explore how Europe can sustain industrial-scale circularity while maintaining competitiveness and advancing decarbonisation goals.
Recycling Europe's flagship annual gathering is a central meeting point for the entire recycling value chain.
this year’s conference will focus on one central question: how do we deliver circularity in practice? Discussions will explore the policy, market and industrial conditions needed to turn Europe’s circular ambitions into measurable results across value chains.
In this document, Recycling Europe outlines its “DOs and DON’Ts” for the upcoming CEA, presenting key policy recommendations that can stimulate demand for high-quality recycled materials, expand recycling capacity and identify measures that could, conversely, undermine the competitiveness of the recycling industry by restricting the recycled materials market or increasing administrative burdens.
The Conference will serve as a platform for dialogue on national and European strategies with a view to the EU's Circular Economy Act, foster discussion among businesses, institutions, associations and research organisations, and present the 2026 Circular Economy Report.
In the battery ecosystem emerging from the growing diffusion of battery-powered electric vehicles, second-life applications for batteries can contribute to more sustainable management.
This report recommends that more clarity be provided regarding the liability framework governing responsibilities for batteries entering repurposing pathways. Further efforts will be needed to adequately standardise the second-life EVB framework and provide harmonised approaches in areas such as State of Health and State of Charge.
In addition, more must be done to boost demand for second-life applications and help create a market for them. Funding schemes and EU-funded projects can continue supporting innovation, particularly in the automation of repurposing processes to enable further cost reductions.
ACR+ Days 2026: where circularity and bioeconomy meet. Over two days, participants will engage in high-level discussions, study visits and thematic sessions, with a strong focus on circularity, material resources management and bioeconomy.
The event will provide valuable opportunities for networking, knowledge exchange and collaboration within a community committed to advancing sustainable and competitive solutions in Europe.
This is the fourth and last in a series of webinars in which SYMBIOREM project partners will present the solutions and strategies developed to remediate and restore contaminated soil and water, as well as to enhance bioremediation efficiency, use secondary inputs and valorise residues and contaminants.
It will offer practical insights into SYMBIOREM’s technology testing results, early circular product concepts and ongoing business‑model development.
PRIMED is a European project that aims to redesign the primary sector to maximise bioeconomy development through the creation, validation and scaling of circular and regenerative bio-based value chains.
It has already mapped the main biomass feedstocks and conversion technologies across its five labs and the bio-based value chains developed there.
