First time in history, Member State can attribute grants for recycling and waste management, without formal advice of the European Commission. Commission checked out the General Regulations of Exemptions by Categories. They allow grants inside the community market. In the first of July of 2014, it is coming into force, but after the official publication on the DOUE. These regulations are a really important part of the legislation about national grants of the EU. It means, there are the rules that determine when a Member State can provide economical support to the companies o to the industries. Recycling and waste management grants are compatible with domestic market, but only when they respect European Waste hierarchy and they should provide an advance in the technique state of art, beside other requirements. First, Member State can´t apply a national grant without previous endorsement of the European Commission. For this purpose, each national grant has to be notified to the European Commission. After… read more →
How much fabric do you have in your house, which you do not use anymore? This could be anything – old sheets and pillow cases – clothing – rolls of unused sewing materials. When we combine all the homes together, the quantity rises drastically. A textile recycling company claims that of all the waste which is accumulated in dumpsters and landfills, 5% is textile. Most of this is recyclable, but it is still not recycled in impressive quantities. In our country, over 14.3 million tons of textile waste is produced on a yearly basis. Of this amount, only 15% gets recycled, whereas this value should be much higher. Is the process to recycle fabric too difficult? That depends on the type of cloth. Generally, it is really simple if you have a big enough piece. If the scraps are small, then recycling can be a problem. So can you do this yourself? We will get into this, but before you… read more →
Gracias a la tecnología QR, la Fundación ECO-RAEE´s, ha desarrollado un sistema para geolocalizar a tiempo real las cajas con las que el Sistema Integrado de Gestión de Residuos de Aparatos Eléctricos y Electrónicos, recoge las lámparas. Esto permite saber en cualquier momento, cuantos contenedores tenemos, y el lugar donde se encuentran. Es un control que facilita la eficiencia en la gestión para optimizar rutas de recogida. Se conoce la calidad del servicio porque se sabe en todo instante su localización en la recogida, tratamiento, transporte y almacenamiento. Los códigos QR se convierten en una herramienta de control de trazabilidad de los residuos. Este proyecto se encuentra en estos momentos en fase demo. Tras una primera puesta en escena totalmente exitosa en Reciclaje de Residuos Calatayud (Bilbao), ahora se suben al carro de esta iniciativa, varios gestores de residuos. Se trata de extender este proyecto piloto a empresas de gestión de residuos, con la premisa de optimizar la trazabilidad del… read more →
Ellen MacArthur Foundation, dedicated to the circular economy research, estimates that European Union could save 480.000 millions of euro per year, if they follow this economic model. It is a question of optimizing resources, and it is about material, energy and waste efficiency. The European Union based its strategy of Europe 2020, in these principles. They want society to evolution towards loop concept, where it is important to recycle, to reduce waste and where resources are used in an efficiency way. It is essential to start with an eco design of the product and its packaging. There are some sectors of activity that should be especially careful with energy efficiency, and waste management. Recovery industry and waste management are loop business models, their main goal is to recollect, treat, and recover waste in an efficiency way, they turn waste into raw material again for re-used. It means that waste is re-use as a material in production, so they avoid to… read more →
77% of the container volume of domestic waste are packagings, as we can see in the report of the Waste Prevention and Responsible Consume Foundation. Recycling Union of Catalunya, estimates that hardly half million of beverage packaging tones go to garbage dump or to incinerator, they are materials that can be recycle with a 100 million euro per year of value. Eurostat, European Estadistics Agency, tells that a 15% of the municipal waste comes from recycling in Spain in 2012, we are in the last position of the state members in recycling matters. Return Association asked for Ecoembes and Ecovidrio, (representatives of packer and great distribution and management of the current container system), to implement a Beverage Packaging Return System. This proposal will allow to recover in origin and recycle to make new packaging in more than 90% of the cases. We should revive the costume of return the bottle to the shop we bought. It will get from 51… read more →
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European Clean-Up Day Every year, millions of tonnes of litter end up in oceans, beaches, forests and elsewhere in nature. The primary causes are our societies’ unsustainable production and consumption patterns, poor waste management strategies and the lack of awareness of the population. In order to reduce littering in nature and to give visibility to the issue, the EWWR (European Week for Waste Reduction) coordinates a Europe-wide annual clean-up day. A European movement Several clean-up campaigns have been implemented in Europe over the past years to tackle the litter problem. The European Clean-Up Day, “Let’s Clean Up Europe!”, intends to bring these initiatives together to have a Europe-wide clean-up event that takes place on the same day all over the continent; involving and reaching as many citizens as possible. By being part of “Let’s Clean Up Europe!” and helping to clean up their environment, participants can see how much waste is being dumped in their neighbourhood. This action provides a… read more →
Europe produced an average of 492 kg of urban waste by person during 2012, 480 kg of this waste, had a treatment. Waste produced: 34% went to garbage dump, 24% was for energetic value, 27% recycled, and 15% compost. These data, published by Eurostat, show an important increase of the compost rate, over the last few years, they went from 18% in 1995 to 42% in 2012. We observe large differences between Estate Member in the Municipal waste production. Denmark, with 668 kilogram per person, produced the major waste in 2012, followed by Cyprus, Luxembourg y Germany, with lower amounts, but above 600 kg. We found a group of countries with levels between 500 and 600 kg: Malta, Ireland, Austria, Netherland, France, Italy, Finland and Greece. UK, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belgium, Portugal and Hungary were in levels from 400 to 500 kg. Under 400 kilograms by person, there were: Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia and Estonia.… read more →
Early estimates of CO2 emissions from energy use in 2013, CO2 emissions in the EU28 estimated to have decreased by 2.5% compared with 2012. Eurostat estimates that in 2013 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5% in the EU28, compared with the previous year, after a fall of 1.6% in 2012. CO2 emissions are a major contributor to global warming and account for around 80% of all EU greenhouse gas emissions. They are influenced by factors such as climate conditions, economic growth, size of the population, transport and industrial activities. Various EU energy efficiency initiatives aim to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. It should also be noted that imports and exports of energy products have an impact on CO2 emissions in the country where fossil fuels are burned: for example if coal is imported this leads to an increase in emissions, while if electricity is imported, it has no direct effect on emissions… read more →
This report is the JRC-IPTS contribution to the development of the end-of-waste criteria for copper and copper alloy scrap in accordance with Article 6 of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste (the Waste Framework Directive). The purpose of end-of-waste criteria is to avoid confusion about the waste definition and to clarify when certain waste that has undergone recovery ceases to be waste. Recycling should be supported by creating legal certainty and an equal level playing field and by removing unnecessary administrative burdens. The end-of-waste criteria should provide a high level of environmental protection and an environmental and economic benefit. The recitals of the Waste Framework Directive identify scrap metals as a possible category of waste for which end-of-waste criteria should be developed. Consequently, the Environment Directorate-General requested from the JRC-IPTS a study with technical proposals on end-of waste criteria for copper and copper alloy scrap. This report delivers the results of the study. It… read more →