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ESWET: Time to ensure sustainable waste shipments in Europe
Over the past decades, exports of waste to non-European countries have risen steadily, pushing the waste issue far away but…
ESWET: The EU Taxonomy and the treatment of non-recyclable waste
With the release of the policy briefing “What Role for the Treatment of Non-Recyclable Waste in the EU Taxonomy?” ESWET…
How to reduce methane emissions? Notes from a successful workshop
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that poses great harm to human health and the environment. It was assessed that methane…
Joint statement: We need more ambition to divert waste from landfilling
Representatives of European Organisations dealing with sustainable resource management welcome the European Commission’s ambition on A New Circular Economy Action…
EU Taxonomy – Waste-to-Energy can be sustainable
ESWET and CEWEP welcome the report on the “EU Taxonomy” published by the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on sustainable finance, with the…
New Eurostat data on Municipal Waste Treatment in the EU
A comparison between Eurostat data between 2010 and 2018 clearly shows that recycling and WasteToEnergy are growing hand-in-hand in the EU….
Siegfried Scholz is the new President of ESWET
(from left, Dr. Siegfried Scholz, president of ESWET, and Dr. Edmund Fleck, former president of ESWET) As of January 1, 2020,…
BAT Conclusions for Waste Incineration – ESWET reaction
ESWET welcomes the publication by the European Commission of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) Conclusions for Waste Incineration (WI), setting…
Explanatory and Guidance document on Waste Incineration BREF and BAT conclusions
The Waste Incineration BAT conclusions, the basis to reassess and update the environmental permits of waste incineration plants in Europe,…
Waste-to-Energy’s contribution to the “Long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions strategy”
(Find the statement in .pdf: http://www.eswet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ESWET-Long-term-EU-greenhouse-gas-emissions-reductions-strategy_27.11.pdf) Waste-to-Energy provides an environmentally sound and cost-effective way to treat residual waste. It is…