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

Brussels, 07 May 2024 – Ahead of the 2024 European elections, FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, has published its manifesto, calling for circular resources for a European Industrial Deal and proposing the establishment of a Circular Material Use Act. The manifesto serves as a call to action for the next term of European Institutions. […]

Brussels, 18 April 2024 – Today, the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) voted in favour of MEP Jutta Paulus’ motion for a resolution objecting the draft Commission Implementing Decision on the mass balance approach under the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). The undersigned organisations – business organisations, associations, and […]

Brussels, 25 March 2024 – The new Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) was adopted today by the Council. Although most of the current rules will continue to apply for a defined transition period of two to three years, depending on the provision, today marks the final step of the formal adoption of the new regulation, which […]

FEAD, CEWEP, Municipal Waste Europe and SGI Europe stress that heat recovered from the thermal treatment of waste (Waste-to-Energy – WtE) should be considered as waste heat in the framework of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the EnergyEfficiency Directive (EED). If this is denied, a huge potential for WtE to recover heat and to […]

With this letter, we express our support to the ENVI committee’s decision to back a motion for a resolution objecting to the Commission’s draft Implementing Decision on the calculation of recycled content for plastic bottles under the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). The outcome of the ENVI committee vote on 18 April was the first […]

Tomorrow, on 18 April, the ENVI Committee will discuss and vote on a motion for a resolution by MEP Jutta Paulus to the draft Commission Implementing Decision on the mass balance approach under the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). The undersigned organisations – civil society organisations and companies active along the waste management value chain […]