Latest Waste & Resources News
Implementing WEEE 2 'will be tough challenge'
27 Jan 2012New 'placed on the market' targets, soaring costs to producers and accounting for unofficial collection are major issues stakeholders will have to deal when implementing new rules on waste electrical and electronic goods (WEEE), experts have warned.
Ministers still wary of actions to cut resource use
21 Feb 2012The European Commission must take into account national characteristics and full economic impacts when assessing the pros and cons of detailed proposals on resource efficiency, according to a resolution adopted by finance ministers on Tuesday.
NewsIreland plans major water sector reform
16 Feb 2012The Irish environment ministry is considering setting up a water agency to oversee the country's wastewater treatment services and drinking water supply. It also plans to radically change the way infrastructure upgrades are financed.
NewsGerman waste deal upsets private recyclers
10 Feb 2012A compromise on a controversial aspect of a draft waste law struck by German lawmakers on Wednesday unfairly favours municipal waste operators, says the trade association representing private waste companies, BVSE.
NewsSpain warned not to revive river transfer plan
10 Feb 2012The Spanish government would be "opening a Pandora's box" if it dusted off a decade-old plan to transfer water from the northern river Ebro to Spain's dry south-east, Catalonia's environment secretary Josep Enric Llebot said on Wednesday.
NewsEU end-of-waste criteria proposed for glass
7 Feb 2012The EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recommended criteria for deciding when glass collected for recycling should stop being classed as waste. The draft end-of-waste criteria will be considered by a regulatory committee in May.
NewsResearch plan for nuclear waste issued
6 Feb 2012An EU consortium on the geological disposal of radioactive waste has issued a research plan to deliver scientific and technological information on the construction of permanent underground sites. A consultation on the plan runs until next week.
AnalysisSorting out the plastic bag policy chaos
5 Jul 2011Member states have adopted a flurry of measures to reduce the use of plastic carrier bags, some of them raising legal issues. EU action is being considered but none of the options put forward, including a ban, seem to get unanimous support.
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Danish presidency programme
Denmark took over the presidency of the EU on 1 January.
Read ENDS article on its provisional agenda of meetings
See also its website and full programme of work officially presented on 6 January
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