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Glass Recycling: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Glass is a success story for Europeans and for European recycling rates. Almost 8 out of 10 glass bottles put on the European market are already collected for recycling around Europe – a figure that should reach 90% by the end of the decade.
Germany’s pioneering bottle deposit scheme has lessons for the EU
Ten EU member states are planning to switch to deposit schemes for beverage container recycling in order to meet new Green Deal requirements. Germany has 20 years of experiencing in operating the world’s largest such scheme.
Blue, yellow or white? Recycling varies widely in the EU
Deposit return and extended producer responsibility schemes are everywhere in the EU but have very different rules. Does this present a barrier to meeting the EU’s recycling objectives?
Pressure mounts on EU member states to meet plastic recycling goals
Pressure is increasing on member states to recycle 77% of plastic bottles by 2025 and reduce waste.
Resolving plastic packaging waste: Can deposit return schemes provide a breakthrough?
The EU Single-Use Plastics Directive sets a 90% separate collection target for plastic beverage bottles by 2029. Policymakers are debating whether deposit return schemes (DRS) can be the solution to achieve this target.
Recycling’s powerful waste-fighting arsenal
Two of recycling’s main tools are used to varying degrees across Europe and now the industry and member states are considering how best to leverage them and help create what has been touted as the "internal market for recycling".
Injecting responsibility into recycling
Collecting and recycling waste is more important than ever, since EU targets ask more and more from member states. But national capitals face a dilemma about how best to recycle more, as two distinct schemes offer two very different solutions.