Producer Responsibility

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ASK-EU, DUH, Various Sources
Responsibility of Discounters When Accepting WEEE in Germany
Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) forces Lidl to dutifully take back electronic waste
ISBN 978-3-911006-86-6 Thomé-Kozmiensky Verlag GmbH
Abstracts From the BKAWE'25
Abstracts From the BKAWE'25” are from Volume 2 of the series ‘Waste Management and Energy’ from TK Verlag
Management of Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Finland
Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment may be discarded free of charge in more than 400 locations.
Experts / Involved Parties
Benedict Wermter
Yayasan Veritas Edukasi Lingkungan
Dr. Nils Wieczorek
Stiftung Gemeinsames Rücknahmesystem Batterien
Prof.Ass.Dr. Bardh Xerxa
UNIVERSUM INTERNTIONAL COLLEGE-KOSOVO
European Comission
Commission Welcomes Provisional Agreement to Enhance the Circularity of Textiles and Reduce Food Waste
The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached last night between the European Parliament and the Council on the targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive.
German Environment Agency
Manufacturers of single-use plastic products must register by 31 December
Current deadline for the Single-Use Plastic Fund expires at the end of 2024
Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Disposal
Recycling industry and fire department associations call for measures against battery fires that threaten livelihoods
Publication and handover of a joint position paper to Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Bettina Hoffmann
Diana Butron
The Slovakian government plans to change the country's deposit return system for single beverage containers
Several associations are strongly concerned about the proposed changes and are asking for them to be withdrawn.
German Environment Agengy - UBA
Online platform DIVID of the Single-Use Plastics Fund now also enables registration of claimants and foreign manufacturers
Major milestone reached for digital fund management – fund volume of up to 430 million euros expected annually
European Parliament
Textiles and food waste reduction: New EU rules to support circular economy
The Environment Committee adopted its proposals to better prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.
Diana Butron
California's Governor Newsom signed the Right to Repair Act
The past October 10th Governor Newsom signed the bill SB 244, the right- to repair legislation for consumer electronics
Council of the EU
Council adopts new regulation on batteries and waste batteries
The regulation will regulate the entire life cycle of batteries – from production to reuse and recycling – and ensure that they are safe, sustainable and competitive.
Dutch Waste Management Association
Dutch waste associations NVRD and DWMA want government support to combat laughing gas canisters
‘The safety of workers is compromised, the damage to plant runs into millions’
European Parliament
Making batteries more sustainable, more durable and better-performing
On Wednesday, Parliament approved new rules for the design, production and waste management of all types of batteries sold in the EU.
laboratorioref.it
“Waste production grows more than GDP. A comparison with the Europe that counts”
The REF Ricerche Laboratory has published the position paper “La produzione di rifiuti cresce più del PIL. Un confronto con l’Europa che conta” (Waste production grows more than GDP. A comparison with the Europe that counts).
BMU
Standardization Roadmap Circular Economy:
New options for action for the green transformation
WtERT
WtERT Announces New Country Representative
We are pleased to welcome Professor Hani Ahmad as the new representative in Jordan
ESWET
The EU should reaffirm the role of Waste-to-Energy in the circular economy
ESWET welcomes the European Commission’s 2023 Work Programme and the renewal of the Green Deal’s ambitions.
BeWasteWise
How Environmental is Social Value? Panel moderated by Adam Read
With the focus of the resources and waste sector very much on protecting the environment and delivering on decarbonisation, the broader impacts and the benefits these bring to society are often overlooked or underplayed.
Museo de los Residuos S.O.S. Morelia
Waste Awareness with the Waste Museum in Mexico.
In Morelia, a Mexican city, there is a waste museum dedicated to creating social awareness of waste management.
Municipality of Planegg
Crutches for Afghanistan
Every year a high number of crutches is disposed of in Germany, as the health system intends them for single use only. Meanwhile, many people in the global South suffer from a lack of medical supplies. Especially in war countries, the quality of life of many wounded people could be significantly improved through functioning prosthesis, wheelchairs, and crutches.
Recy & DepoTech 2018
Enticing Consumers to Avoid Waste - Digital and Analogue Ways of Raising their Awareness Prof. Ulrike Gelbmann Martina Zimek
The top priority of waste management in accordance with the Austrian Waste Management Act is waste prevention (§ 1 (2) AWG), which takes place largely outside the waste regime. Still, it is a prime task of waste management authorities to encourage the actual actor, producers of goods and products and consumers, to engage in waste prevention.
Recy&DepoTech 2018
Chemical Current Sources Management in the European Union and Russia in the Context of Extended Producer Responsibility Valeriia Zilenina Dr.-Ing. Olga Ulanova Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Dornack
The rapid development of the electronic industry in the post-industrial society contributes to the increase in the production volumes of chemical currentsources (CCS). This article is concerned with the extended producer responsibility (EPR) concept and the mechanisms of its implementation in the spent chemical current sources (SCCS management in Russia and in the EU countries. The EPR organization models for greening the SCCS lifecycle in these countries using the existing legal basis of the European Union and Russia are presented.
North America's First Circular Economy Framework Challenges and Opportunities Jonathan Cocker
In January 2017, the Ontario Government began implementing North America’s first circular economy waste diversion regimei ("Circular Economy Framework"), which included Independent Producer Responsibility ("IPR").
bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH
bifa-Text No. 62: Ecoefficiency analysis of photovoltaic modules / english version Matthias Seitz, Dr. Malgorzata Kroban, Dipl.- Ing. Thorsten Pitschke, Dr. Siegfried Kreibe
The study by the bifa environmental institute describes a future-orientated view of the ecological and economic effects of photovoltaic (PV) systems along their whole life cycle.
Institut für Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaft - TU Dresden
Mining the Cities – Infrastructure and Producer Responsibility? Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Flamme, M.Sc. Peter Krämer
Infrastructure is a frequently used term, but its conceptual meaning is so broad that it needs to be further defined and sharpened for the purposes of this contribution. The German DUDEN – Dictionary of Economy – defines infrastructure as “all public and private facilities that are regarded as essential to ensure sufficient services for the public and facilitate economic development“ [1].
Wasteconsult international
From waste to materials management John Wante
The waste framework directive forms the legal basis of European waste legislation. The original directive dates from 1975 and was thoroughly revised in 2008. This revision served several purposes. First of all, the revision was part of the process of “better regulation” in which existing environmental legislation is screened on potential simplification without lowering the level of environmental protection. The new waste framework directive integrates three old directives, namely the old waste framework directive, the directive on hazardous waste and the waste oil directive, three pieces of legislation that showed considerable overlaps.