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 [...]
Aid intended for the removal of asbestos
The Waste Agency of Catalonia has an open call for aid intended for the removal at source of insulation and construction material waste that contains asbestos in order to ensure that the removal is carried out under the appropriate conditions to guarantee the minimization of the risk that this material entails for health [...]
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 [...]
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THE NEW CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY
Announced earlier last week, the "A Circular Google" initiative includes a new goal to "maximize the reuse of finite resources in its operations, products and supply chains and enable others to do the same." Although it lacks tangible and time-based overall objectives, the new strategy has established […]
Europe towards the Circular Economy
Robert Schuman, already 69 years ago, said that "Europe will not be made all at once or in a joint work: it will be made thanks to concrete realizations, which create in the first place a solidarity in fact", Europe continues to be made every day , and their future depends on these concrete actions. Like the European Union [...]
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. [...]
