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Bring waste full circle: how to implement the circular economy

Europe sends over 50% of its waste straight to landfill and incinerators, generating toxic and climate damaging emissions, destroying valuable resources and resulting in a huge missed opportunity for job creation. Waste finds its way into every corner of the natural environment, from the deepest ocean trenches to the Arctic, and even in the food …

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Briefing: Understanding the biofuel trade-offs between Indirect land use change (ILUC), hunger and poverty

The European Parliament and the Council of the EU are currently considering reforms that could change the course of biofuels policy – by ensuring that only biofuels that “help achieving substantial emission cuts, do not directly compete with food and are more sustainable at the same time” are promoted. However, a new analysis by Searchinger …

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Briefing: Burning land: how much land will be required for Europe’s bioenergy?

New research by the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) for Friends of the Earth Europe shows how Europe’s consumption of bioenergy is exerting unparalleled and unsustainable new pressures on the world’s land and forests. With demand for bioenergy (crops and wood used for transport fuel, heating and electricity) set to more than double …

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Politicians must clamp down on plastic bags

On the International Plastic Bag-Free Day, EU Ministers must support a European Parliament proposal which sets limits on environmentally damaging single-use plastic bags, according to a coalition of environmental and waste prevention organisations. Every European uses an estimated 500 plastic bags a year on average, 92.5% of which are single-use. Around 90 billion single-use plastic …

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