Umbrella Project-Waste Management & Circular Economy(WMCE)-Phase I

This report summarizes the activities carried out by the WMCE project between April and December 2021.

This document outlines the project's structure, meetings held, and networking efforts with other organizations. The document also details the work of various subgroups, including those focused on training, landfill guidance, the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and circular economy, byproducts, and REACH regulations. A key initiative is the development of an end-of-waste database to facilitate information sharing and uniformity in decision-making

A crucial element in the transition to the Circular Economy are the innovations at production and recycling facilities that aim at resource efficiency, the prevention of waste and the use of production residues or materials recovered from waste as secondary raw materials. A key condition for making these circular innovations work is to better connect policy, law and regulation on the ground. This guidance was developed to support regulators, policy- and law-makers and businesses in enabling and carrying through such innovations and rise to some of the commonly shared challenges.

The report contains the minutes of the MIW&IMPEL Conference, where the “Guidance for regulators on enabling innovations for the circular economy (prevention and recycling of waste)” has been launched.