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 - Provisional Agreement on the SUP Directive: EuRIC applauds binding recycled content target in plastic bottles by 2025 and 2030 - 19.12.2018

The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) warmly welcomes the provisional agreement on the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUP) setting a binding target of at least 25% of recycled plastic for PET beverage bottles from 2025 and a targe ...

Preliminary Comments – Proposals to amend annexes II, VIII and IX of the Basel Convention - 19.12.2018

EuRIC is pleased to share preliminary comments on the proposals made by Norway to amend annexes II, VIII and IX of the Basel Convention which would impact the classification of plastic waste under the Basel Convention with the declared objectives to ...

Joint Paper – Calling for an ambitious and comparable measurement point for glass recycling - 22.11.2018

FEVE, FERVER, EXPRA and EuRIC are committed to increasing the quality and efficiency of the glass recycling value chain through separate collection, quality recycling and closed loop manufacturing of glass. To help us achieve this, we support a sing ...

Position paper – Recast of the POP Regulation ahead of the vote in Plenary: Preserving high quality plastics recycling from WEEE & ELVs in Europe - 13.11.2018

The proposal made in the ENVI Committee to set an unintentional trace contaminant (UTC) of 10 ppm for decaBDE in the Annex I of the POP Regulation, which is 100 times lower than the threshold set by the REACH restriction, will put an end to plastics ...