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A Brussels based association promoting the circular economy by representing Europe’s private resource and waste management industry.

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What our industry does

Creates jobs

Enables the circular economy

Provides secondary raw materials which are preferable to virgin materials

Ensures a cleaner environment

Promotes the safe treatment of hazardous waste

Plays a considerable role in climate protection through prevention of methane and CO2 emissions

Allows all other economic actors to operate and/or do business by dealing with their waste in an environmentally responsible way.

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November 30
Position

More legal certainty for the carriage of waste dangerous goods from 2025

Brussels, 30 November 2023 –The RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group approved last week, at its 16th session, FEAD’s proposal to transport certain waste contained in different individual (inner) packagings packed together in one outer recipient (outer packaging). This comes after the same proposal was already approved in early November 2023 by the UNECE […]

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November 23
Position

The packaging and packaging waste regulation one step closer to becoming reality

FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, hosted yesterday a conference on PFAS in the waste sector to analyse the impact of a potential ban. During the event, the Environmental Engineering Research Team of the University of Padova presented their results of a critical review, commissioned by FEAD, on the presence of PFASs in relevant waste streams.

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November 22
Position

FEAD position on the proposal for a targeted revision of the EU Waste Framework Directive: textile waste and food waste

Brussels, 22 November 2023. FEAD is fully committed to the objectives of the European Green Deal and the Circular Economy Action Plan as essential tools for providing the adequate stimuli to our economy while pushing forward EU Climate goals through the circular economy. As stated by the Commission’s proposal, the textiles and food sectors represent […]

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