The ECESP's annual conference will take place in April! A key event in the circular economy calendar, it will be spread over two days and bring together policy makers and the people making the circular economy a reality on the ground.
This will be an online networking session for European circular businesses, experts and investors. The aim is to bolster collaboration and accelerate investment in circular innovation.
The EU-funded Wood2Wood project aims to improve resource efficiency by recovering high value material from polluted wood found in industrial and urban waste streams.
The European Commission has just adopted new measures to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear and so curb the resulting mountain of waste. See what the measures entail!
With the work programme for this mandate approved, we now have the list of ECESP leadership groups! Read all about what they will be focusing on and what they aim to achieve.
The PROMOFER project aims to produce circular biobased products for use in the agriculture, packaging and textiles sectors from low value, renewable feedstocks (specifically starches, whey permeate, industrial wastewater, rice straw, wheat straw and prune waste). They've just taken stock of progress to date!
On 29 January, the European Committee of the Regions hosted Municipal Waste Europe for a partnership event on textile waste, taking stock of the first year of mandatory separate collection of textile waste in the EU.
Speakers discussed challenges on the supply and demand sides, along with the role of policy. Read all about it!
This report aims to provide a diagnostic to underpin the Clean Industrial Deal and the Single Market Strategy. It responds to calls from businesses to prioritise competitiveness.
The circular economy is identified as one of the keys to making the EU more competitive. The report looks at the barriers to this transition, such the higher cost of secondary raw materials, the difficulty of scaling up and replicating solutions in a fragmented market and diverging national regulatory frameworks which hinder the development of enhanced supply chains and discourage upscaling innovative recycling facilities.
The Critical Raw Materials Act and Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will enhance conditions for circular business models and the circular transition needs to pick up the pace.
RUNFASTER4EU is a new Horizon Europe Innovation Action which aims to show that it is possible to use unproductive, polluted or otherwise unused land to grow crops as feedstock for biobased products. This approach does not take land away from food or feed production while supporting the EU's bioeconomy.
