EuRIC - EuRIC - Advocating Recycling in Europe

EuRIC in a nutshell

Our business: Turning waste into new resources

EuRIC is the Confederation representing the interests of the European recycling industries. EuRIC brings together European and National recycling Associations from more than 19 EU and EFTA countries.

Our objective: Advocating recycling in Europe

The role of recycling is of paramount importance for the European economy, the environment and society. Recycling activities provide much needed jobs and investment while minimising environmental impacts. EuRIC advocates a smart regulatory framework fostering recycling across Europe and the competitiveness of the recycling industry.

Our Members represents on a European level:

5,500 companies, including large companies and a vast number of SMEs, involved in the recycling and trade of various material streams and are thus key players in a circular economy;
More than 300,000 local jobs which cannot be outsourced outside Europe;
Million tonnes of a variety of materials recycled per year (metals, paper, plastics, glass and beyond);
An aggregated annual turnover of about 95 billion Euros.

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Latest position papers

Press release – Landmark vote by the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament on recycled content targets - 10.10.2018

Members of the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament voted today on the Report amending the Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive proposed by the European Commission. Led by Ms. Frederique RIES, Rapporteur for the ENVI Committee of the European Pa ...

Press release – EuRIC supports initiative to save Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Package - 27.09.2018

EuRIC has co-signed a joint letter with more than 50 organizations to urge the European Commission not to delay or minimize the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Package. You can find more information about this initiative and download our joint letter ...

EuRIC Position – ECHA Database on Candidate List substances - 18.09.2018

EuRIC welcomes the initiative to take measures helping recyclers to get information on the substances contained in articles reaching their facilities at end-of-life but also points out some problematic aspects concerning this new legal requirement, ...

Joint Position on the Recast of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - 05.09.2018

EuRIC together with many other associations share their concerns in a joint paper about the impact of setting a disproportionately low unintentional trace contaminant (UTC) threshold (10 mg/kg) for decaBDE on plastics recycling and its consistency w ...