Regulation revision threatens to be bad for business and for the environment

Although recycling industry lobbying had helped to prompt some welcome changes to the draft text of the EU Waste Shipment Regulation revision, the proposal in its current form would still lead to “crumbling” prices, job losses and “a lot of companies going out of the market because it’s not profitable any more”, warned Antoine Stilo, Policy Officer at the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation, in his guest presentation to the BIR International Environment Council meeting in Barcelona on May 23.

“It’s bad for the Circular Economy, bad for the recycling industry, bad for recycling, bad for greenhouse gas emissions and bad for environmental protection,” he told delegates.