Policy
Circular Economy

Waste-to-Energy and the European Green Deal

CEWEP’s article published in Waste Management World Magazine…

The Zero Waste Utopia and the Role of Waste-to-Energy

An Editorial by Peter Quicker, Stefano Consonni and Mario Grosso, renown Professors in the field…

New Circular Economy Action Plan – Ambitious, but not when it Comes to Reducing Large Scale Landfilling

CEWEP reacts to European Commission’s new Circular Economy Action Plan…

CEWEP Statement: Commission’s Interface Communication rightly calls for decontamination of material cycles

CEWEP reacts to European Commission’s 2018 Circular Economy Package…

CEWEP Statement on Circular Economy: Tremendous Slow-down

CEWEP reacts to preliminary agreement between European Parliament and Council…

Statement on the calculation of recycling targets

CEWEP joins recyclers for a common statement…

Recommendation on monitoring of commercial and industrial waste

CEWEP co-signs joint statement…

Response to Landfill Diversion Delay

Joint letter warns about misdirected investments and no circular economy…

Joint action on waste legislation

In May 2017, CEWEP and other stakeholders delivered common statements on key issues in discussion under the Circular Economy Package…

Experts Discuss Integrated Waste Management

There will always be residual waste that is not good for recycling. However it does not mean that we cannot recover energy and materials from it.

Waste Management “Cycles, Spirals and Linear Flows”

by Paul H. Brunner, Vienna University of Technology

Recycling and resource efficiency: it is time for a change from quantity to quality

by Costas A. Velis, University of Leeds and Paul H. Brunner, Vienna University of Technology

Relevant documents


Circular Economy

Towards a Circular Economy
European Commision Documents


Residual waste treatment factsheet 2020