EuRIC Position Papers

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Position Paper | Boosting steel scrap recycling in the EU Debunking myths & setting a clear pathway to decarbonise steel through recycling

13 February 2023
Europe champions steel recycling, both in terms of quantity and quality delivered to steel mills every year. Since 2007, the quality of recycled steel materials is defined in an EU-27 specifications which are based themselves on earlier specificat...
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Position Paper | Proposed integration of Basel e-waste entries into the OECD Decision

16 November 2022
Through its members, EuRIC represents the vast majority of e-waste recycling facilities in Europe and therefore has a strong interest in providing comments about the incorporation of the newly adopted Basel Convention entries into the OECD Decisio...
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Position Paper | EPR Schemes

09 November 2022
Recycling creates value by turning waste into recycled materials while saving energy and GHG emissions compared to extracting new raw materials. Over the last decades, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Schemes for different waste streams have...
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Battery fires in recycling facilities - a burning issue and how to resolve it

06 October 2022
Facilities recycling electronic waste, metal scrap, and other waste streams are increasingly confronted by fires caused by defective high-energy batteries, particularly lithium batteries. This paper highlights the urgent actions and increased...
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One-pager | Waste Shipment Regulation jeopardises a European circular economy for recycling

08 September 2022
The European recycling industries outline the significant risks posed to both to employment and economic growth under current proposals envisaged by the revision of the EU's Waste Shipment Regulation. In this one-pager, we summarise these unnecess...
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Position Paper | A united tyre value chain calls for immediate EU-wide end-of-waste criteria for recycled rubber.

23 June 2022
EuRIC and ETRMA are pleased to see rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres among the “top 3” most suitable candidate streams for which to develop further EU-wide end-of-waste (EoW) criteria but further policy makers’ commitment is needed.
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Position Paper | EuRIC reaction on the environmental impact of photovoltaic modules, inverters and systems

08 November 2021
Improving the design of products is a pre-condition to transition towards a circular economy. As it has already been highlighted in the report released by the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) named “Top 5 Priorities of the Recy...
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EURIC and ETRMA call for the development of EU-wide End of Waste criteria for the End of Life Tyre-derived Rubber Waste Stream

27 October 2021
ETRMA and EuRIC are committed to support the European Commission in developing EU harmonized End of Waste (EoW) criteria. The rubber supply chain is ready for the next step in the advancement and uptake of the recycling of ELT-derived Rubber. Th...
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Revision of the ELV and 3R Type Approval Directives

27 October 2021
The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC), welcomes the initiation of the Impact Assessment andrevision of both Directive 2000/53/EC on End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) and of the Directive 2005/64/EC on the type approval of motor vehicl...
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European recyclers warn that restricting exports of raw materials could end the Circular Economy

27 October 2021
Nearly 300 European national federations and companies from the recycling industry have issued a powerful warning to European Union leaders over the potentially disastrous effects of a blanket restriction on exports of Raw Materials from Recycling...
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Importance of free, fair and sustainable trade for commodity-grade metal scrap

21 October 2021
Europe’s metal recycling industry is one of the fastest growing industries, providing local, non-outsourceable jobs.  Composed of SMEs and large players, it offers a unique infrastructure of facilities and processing plants spread all over Eu...
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EuRIC welcomes the European plastics producers’ call for a 30% mandatory EU recycled content target by 2030

10 September 2021
The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) strongly welcomes the call made by Plastics Europe for a mandatory EU recycled content target for plastics packaging of 30% by 2030, and looks forward to working with the entire packaging va...
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