Reloop has published a new position paper with six key recommendations to shape Europe’s Circular Economy Act. The aim is to strengthen material recovery, scale practical circular solutions and support a dynamic single market for waste and secondary raw materials.
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Consultation on the Circular Economy Act
Our position paper aims to advance Europe’s circular economy, boost material recovery, and promote investment in practical, scalable solutions.
The paper provides evidence-based insight and highlights how improved regulation can encourage the use of recycled content in new products. With these recommendations, Reloop seeks to enable investment and innovation across the value chain.
Reloop’s six recommendations for the Circular Economy Act:
- Expand the definition of separate collection, with Deposit Return Systems (DRS) as a key tool for CRM-containing products.
- Mandate Mixed Waste Sorting (MWS) to complement separate collection, secure necessary secondary materials and prevent the loss of valuable materials, from plastics to critical raw materials.
- Evolve EPR into a resource management tool for implementing circular economy policies that drive circular design, reuse, recycling and EU-wide harmonisation to close material loops.
- Establish predictable recycled-material markets through accelerated mandates, tax incentives, public procurement prioritisation, ecomodulated EPR fees, CRM recycling targets, harmonised standards, traceability, certification and import controls.
- Provide financial incentives, including taxes, VAT reductions, and targeted funding, to support recycling, reuse, sorting and broader circular practices.
- Ensure the Act creates enabling conditions that make reuse systems financially viable and operationally efficient, as well as oversight and monitoring mechanisms in order to prevent delays and loopholes.
The European Union Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is an agreement aimed at reducing pollution from packaging materials.
How further sorting of municipal mixed waste for recycling prior to landfill can help the EU meet its recycling and carbon emissions targets.
The Alliance is united in the mission to accelerate the implementation of best-in-class Deposit Return Systems (DRS) across Europe (UK and European Union).