When the co-legislators agreed on a final text for the revised EU Waste legislation, they decided to move away from current practice of accounting for what is “collected for recycling” (minus significant losses) and move towards measuring what is “effectively recycled”, i.e. the amount of waste materials entering the recycling process whereby waste materials are effectively transformed. The European Commission has a very tight deadline by the end of March 2019 to put forward a number of implementing and delegated acts to give guidelines to Member States on harmonised reporting rules for recycling. The glass value chain (FEVE, FERVER, EXPRA, EuRIC) with the support of individual EPR schemes such as Austria Glas Recycling (AT), CITEO (FR), DerGrünePunkt (DE), EcoVidrio (ES) and SvenskGlasAtervinning (SE), came together and proposed a measurement methodology that will allow to account for the glass that is effectively recycled, and promote bottle-to-bottle recycling. For more information, please visit the above-mentioned website.
