CEC4Europe – Circular Economy Coalition for Europe – CEC4EUROPE

02/17/2022

The SUM Symposium, organised biennially since 2012 by IWWG–International Waste Working Group, nowadays represents the ideal reference Forum for Circular Economy and Urban Mining, where scientists and stakeholders can debate the most advanced results and focus on future needs.

The 2022 edition will take place from 18^th to 20^th May 2022 in the fascinating venue of Capri, Italy.

All details available at the following page: https://www.sumsymposium.it/en/ or contact the Organising Secretariat at info@sumsymposium.it.

New study: Waste Management can reduce CO2 emissions

01/28/2022

Approximately 150 million tons of CO2 equivalents can be saved by 2035 in Europe. This shows a recent study by the European Waste Management Association (FEAD). This is contingent on implementing current municipal waste legislation and maintaining recycling and landfill targets for industrial and commercial waste. If the targets are defined even more ambitious, even up to 296 million tons of CO2eq could be saved.

Read here for the study results.

More circular economy made in Austria

01/28/2022

Due to resource scarcity and climate change, the EU wants to move away from the current throwaway society towards a circular economy. To achieve this, more waste must be recycled in the future. The new Christian Doppler Laboratory for Recycling-Based Circular Economy at TU Wien is investigating how this can be achieved. The CD-Laboratory was established in January 2021 under the lead of Dr. Jakob Lederer at the Insitute for Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Technical Biosciences.

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Publication project: CEC4Europe‘s Fact Book on the Circular Economy

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CEC4Europe is in constant dialogue with renowned scientists on the topics of waste and resource management, economics, as well as political science.

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Encouraged by the EU Commission’s Circular Economy Package (CEP)

CEC4Europe endorses the importance of closing loops and boosting resource efficiency, but at the same time, pleads for a more scientifically and fact based approach: A systematic analysis of our future raw material needs and all relevant secondary raw material sources is needed so we can achieve the common goals of the circular economy – environmental protection, securing of raw materials, economic benefit, and growth – in an effective and efficient manner, based on scientific evidence. Taking far-reaching economic and environmental policy decisions with an insufficient data basis would be speculative and not in line with the CEP objectives. CEC4Europe is an association under Austrian law, based in Vienna, AT, and registered in the EU Transparency register under No 628480917959-24 (24/06/2015).

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SUM 2022 – 6th Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining