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Euric strongly welcomes the European Commission’s decision to make textiles, apparel and fabrics a priority product category within the Circular Economy 2.0.

The European Commission today presented The European Green Deal – a roadmap for making the EU’s economy sustainable by turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities across all policy areas and making the transition just and inclusive for all.

Sustainable development must be at the heart of the future of Europe. If we want to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, we need to act now. The time for reflection is over, urges the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in its recent opinion on the Commission’s Reflection Paper “Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030“.

Europe will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources.

Euric, the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation, has released on 3rd December the strategic priorities of the recycling industry for the period 2019-2024.

Professor Egbert Lox. Senior Vice President at Umicore, will talk about the complexity of sustainable mobility at the 19th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC. ICM talked to him about this topic in advance.

Over 300 participants gathered in Brussels to debate plastics recyclability and latest plastics recycling developments.

Consumption of clothing, footwear and household textiles in the European Union (EU) uses annually about 1.3 tonnes of raw materials and more than 100 cubic metres of water per person, according to a European Environment Agency briefing.

At the IERC 2020, Mr Surendra Borad Patawari, Gemini Corporation N.V., Belgium will provide an overview of developments worldwide on the plastics recycling market. ICM talked to him in advance.

Monitoring Recyclates for Europe, a unified online tool to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is now available for use by converters in the United Kingdom.

Neste and Ravago start collaboration to enable chemical recycling of over 200,000 tons of plastic waste annually. The oil refiner has set a target to process annually more than one million tons of plastic waste from 2030 onwards.