Op-Ed: "The Circular Economy in Action: The New EU Rules to Prevent Food Waste and Used Textiles"
(2025) EULaw Live — Vol. online, p. 1-5 (2025)
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- Environmental law moves at a snail’s pace. In the 1990s and early 2000s,the EU adopted several sectoral directives with ambitious recyclingtargets for packaging and packaging waste (Directive 94/62/EC),electrical and electronic waste (Directive 2002/96/EC), and end-of-lifevehicles (Directive 2000/53/EC). Waste law made significant progress,but harmonisation stalled in the early 2000s. In the absence ofharmonised rules, Member States had to regulate various waste-producing sectors. Bolstered by the European Green Deal of December2019, the European Commission adopted an action plan on the circulareconomy on 30 March 2022. A swathe of new regulations on batteries(2023/1542), packaging and packaging waste (2025/40) and cross-bordermovements of waste (2024/1157) fleshed out this action plan. The latestlegislation, namely Directive 2025/1892 of 10 September 2025, amendsthe Waste Framework Directive 2008/98 to mitigate the environmentaland climate impacts of food waste and our throwaway society.
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de Sadeleer, N. (2025). Op-Ed: “The Circular Economy in Action: The New EU Rules to Prevent Food Waste and Used Textiles”. EULaw Live, online, 1-5. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/276116 (Original work published 2025)