Electric vehicles are rapidly transforming the transportation landscape. Circularity solutions, namely recycling and second-life applications, are central to addressing environmental impacts and securing access to valuable materials in electric vehicle batteries (EVBs).
Consolidating lessons learnt from the BATRAW project, this report identifies three key enabling conditions for scaling up circularity applications for EVBs in the EU: (i) effective implementation of the EU policy framework underpinned by the Batteries Regulation; (ii) strengthened financial support for scaling up battery circularity applications; and (iii) further harmonisation of the standardisation landscape impacting EVB circularity.
The European Investment Bank and the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment are organising an event to mark the launch of their joint report on Transitioning to a circular economy: Closing the investment gap in Europe.
The BATMASS project (EU circular BATtery valley for second life, recycling, and re-manufacturing of materials and black MASS) aims to revolutionise the battery value chain in Europe by creating a cross-regional ecosystem based on circular innovations.
On 17 March, it hosted a Forum exploring opportunities to scale up circular battery technologies and strengthen Europe’s battery value chain.
The TREASoURcE project's final conference will showcase territorial and regional demonstrations of systemic circular economy solutions in plastics, batteries, and biobased waste and side streams.
Find out about practical solutions, tools and strategies tailored for policy makers, industry, cities, researchers and civil society – and take home actionable approaches for your region, sector or organisation.
DPPSkop is a comprehensive B2B SaaS platform developed to meet the Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements mandated under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
The platform enables manufacturers, particularly in high-impact sectors such as textiles, batteries and electronics, to digitise, manage and share the lifecycle data of their products.
The European Commission recently adopted a legislative proposal to increase demand for low-carbon, European-made technologies and products. The Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) aims to boost manufacturing, grow businesses and create jobs in the EU, while supporting industry's adoption of cleaner, future-ready technologies.
This report provides an analytical assessment of existing circular economy frameworks, standards and indicators from the specific perspective of automotive suppliers.
It examines the practical challenges of translating high-level circular economy objectives into measurable and operational indicators for industry.
The SUINK project aims to design and implement sustainable, flexible and printable self-charging power systems to supply power to a wide range of sensors for the automotive industry.
This webinar will present their printed, recyclable piezoelectric harvesting system designed to harvest electrical energy from mechanical vibrations, a printed bio-based supercapacitor for energy storage and the SUINK self-charging power system.
Paper recycling is one of Europe’s greatest circular economy achievements. However, regulatory fragmentation, market imbalances and rising operational risks are placing pressure on recyclers.
Recycling Europe calls on EU policymakers to act. This manifesto proposes four measures to safeguard the success story of paper recycling:
Design circular paper products: recycling should be expected and the CEA should drive demand;
Reduce EU administrative burdens: EU-wide rules on end-of-waste criteria for recovered paper and shipments are needed;
Secure access to global markets for recovered paper: not all recovered paper can be re-used within Europe;
Address the fire risk from lithium batteries in waste management facilities: proper waste sorting is crucial.
This edition of Science for Environment Policy is a collection of seven previously published articles on scientific studies relevant to the circular economy. Read about battery collection, whether laypeople can really understand LCA data, chemical recycling and why people throw away clothing.
