FRANCE: THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BILL AND THE FIGHT AGAINST WASTE, NOW IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
The draft Law on the circular economy and the fight against waste has entered the National Assembly after a controversial debate in the Senate. The text of the circular economy law (LEC, for the acronym in Spanish) promulgated by Brune Poirson, Secretary of State of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, came out considerably strengthened from [...]
PROGRESS IS OBSERVED IN THE REDUCTION OF PLASTIC POLLUTION
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program publish the first annual progress report of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (in English, New Plastics Economy Global Commitment). According to the report, companies establish actions to reduce problematic plastic packaging and increase the use of plastic [...]
COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL THE AGENTS IN THE PLASTIC VALUE CHAIN AND INNOVATION TO END PLASTIC WASTE THAT END UP POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT
According to the latest studies carried out by various sources, about 80 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from land-based garbage, much of which ends up in the sea through one of the world's ten most important rivers. Also, 60 percent of the oceanic plastics go to five countries in [...]
MANAGEMENT OF FOOD WASTE IN LARGE DISTRIBUTION
The "7th point of the AECOC meeting against food waste" brought together, last September 26, more than 300 professionals from companies, administrations and NGOs. During the event, the study Management of food waste in large distribution was presented, with which Nielsen and Checkpoint, in collaboration with AECOC, analyzed the impact of the loss [...]
CESE: R + D + I IS NEEDED, A GUARANTEE OF SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS AND MORE INITIATIVES TO DEVELOP THE RECYCLING OF MATERIALS FROM OLD BATTERIES
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) supports the EU action plan for batteries drawn up by the European Commission, but notes that it must be stepped up and implemented quickly. The risk that large sectors of the European automotive industry move their production to regions close to the production units [...]
10,000 MILLION EUROS TO SUPPORT THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE EU
The largest banks and national development institutions of the EU and the European Investment Bank launch an initiative of 10,000 million Euros to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable and circular economy. On July 18, five European national development institutions and banks and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have launched, in [...]
THE EU MUST ACCELERATE AN AMBITIOUS CIRCULAR ECONOMY POLICY
The second day of the informal meeting of EU Environment and Climate Ministers focused on expanding the circular economy to new areas. The ministers discussed the solutions offered by the circular economy to mitigate climate change and stop the loss of biodiversity. The informal meeting of Ministers of the Environment [...]
Ice cream wrapped in flavor only
Summer is approaching and, as every year, thousands of plastic wrappers will accompany our ice creams, powders and "flashes", of which a large percentage of them will end up totally or partially outside the recycling circuits and predictably in rivers , seas and oceans. Spain is currently the third country in the world in ice cream consumption, with more than 40 […]
AEICE, produces a new guide in the framework of the Circular Economy
AEICE in collaboration with its partners RECSO and CITOPIC, alongside CEMOSA, present the "Guide for the use of recycled aggregate and recommendations for its purchase" in the framework of the Circular Economy. Guide for the use of recycled aggregate and recommendations for its purchase. In November, it was presented, [...]
FEAD: "There will be a decrease in the recycling of plastic waste"
On 10 May, after two weeks of meetings between the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva, 180 governments accepted the Norwegian proposal to amend the Basel Convention. Mixed plastic waste has moved from the "green list" to the "amber list" regime. [...]
