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FEAD by numbers

0

National waste
management associations

0

Private waste
management companies

0

Employees
in total

0

Recycling and
sorting centres

0

Controlled
landfills

0

Composting
sites

0

Waste-to-Energy
plants

0

billion

Euros in investments
per year

Where our members are active

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  • Austria
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  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Luxembourg
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • The Netherlands
  • United Kingdom

ARI – The Danish Waste and Resource Industry

Denmark

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A.R.S.M.D.

Romania

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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.

Our latest press releases

April 28 2025
Press release

FEAD meets Commissioner Roswall and publishes 10 policy recommendations for the Circular Economy Act

Brussels, 28 April 2025 – FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, is proud to unveil its 10 policy recommendations for the upcoming Circular Economy Act, a crucial step to ensure that Europe’s circular economy ambitions are met with concrete, actionable legislation. The waste and resource management sector plays a dual role: it is both a […]
April 25 2025
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FEAD starts developing ‘Sleep Circular’ project to improve end-of-life treatment of mattresses

Etten-Leur, The Netherlands, 25 April 2025 – Today FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, brought together a group of experts coming from the mattresses value chain to visit the RetourMatras plant in the Netherlands, to start laying the foundations of a Circular Value Chain Partnership. The Sleep Circular project is a FEAD initiative aiming at […]
April 10 2025
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FEAD and BRRA strengthen cooperation in the waste management sector with a series of events in Sofia

Sofia, 10 April 2025 – FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, in collaboration with our Bulgarian member, BRRA, successfully hosted a series of events in Sofia on 7 and 8 April 2025, bringing together stakeholders from the waste sector. For FEAD, cooperation is at the heart of what we do, and events like these reinforce […]
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Our latest positions

April 29 2025
Position papers

The need for support of circularity in the Clean Industrial State Aid Framework

We, the undersigned coalition of circular economy trade associations, businesses, and NGOs from across Europe, are writing to express our concerns regarding the current draft of the Clean Industrial State Aid Framework (CISAF), and its notable omission of support for circularity measures. Strategic Importance of Circularity The Clean Industrial Deal (CID) recognises that “Circularity will […]
April 25 2025
Position papers

REACH Revision

FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, welcomes the European Commission’s presentation at CARACAL and its efforts to modernise REACH. We appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback on the upcoming revision and we are committed to supporting the EU’s ambition of creating a more circular and non-toxic economy. Introduction Registration Exemptions and End-of-Waste Polymers: Inclusion and […]
April 25 2025
Position papers

FEAD position on the new State aid Framework accompanying the Clean Industrial Deal Communication

FEAD welcomes the intention of simplifying State aid rules and aligning them with the Clean Industrial Deal objectives. However, one of the CID priorities is not sufficiently addressed in this new State aid framework: circularity. FEAD strongly encourages correcting this in particular by covering in the new CISAF also recycling capacities and not only manufacturing […]
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