Industry association RECHARGE says it will support policymakers in shaping secondary acts of  legislation, seeking to make batteries more sustainable at every point in the supply chain

Update to key European Union legislation targets improvement to capture of clothing, shoes and food waste

Vote in favour of the Environment Committee’s position to address the fashion industry’s largely unregulated and negative impact

The report follows the decision by all 193 UN Member States at the United Nations Environment Assembly in March 2022 to end plastic pollution

The announcement comes as part of a wider revocation of 600 retained EU laws across UK legislation

25 MEPs have signed an open letter Frans Timmermans demanding measures to prohibit and reduce the unintentional release of micro- and nanoplastics during production processes.

As the EU decides on proposals for new legislation around packaging, 120 packaging associations have signed a joint letter that stresses the need to preserve the internal market legal basis in its entirety or risk ‘increasing fragmentation’

All EU member states must set up a separate collection for textiles by January 2025, but Finland is getting ahead of the game

Clothing accounts for 32 per cent of the carbon impacts while plastic accounts for 14 per cent

New report from ZWE and Reloop finds adoption of mixed waste sorting prior to landfill or EfW could reduce EU waste sector emissions by 25 per cent