Circular Economy: reduce, remanufacture, repair, reuse, recycle your waste

Guided by diverse policies, European countries have improved waste management.
The manufacturing and service sector waste declined by about a quarter in 2004– 2012, while municipal waste generation fell 2 %.
Along with increased recycling, these trends helped reduce landfilling. 

Nevertheless, progress to EU waste targets is mixed. Achieving the EU’s long-term objective of establishing a circular economy will require far-reaching technological, behavioral and organizational changes.

This is what we can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save our planet.

5 actions needed

• Think how to prevent waste already when shopping
• Repair, remanufacture and reuse products, buy second-hand and sell or give away things you don’t need
• Sort, recycle and compost
• Waste can be turned into valuable raw materials and energy
• As little as possible should end up in landfills

The green economy as an integrating framework for policies on material use

Resourse efficiency

The EU has adopted two new energy targets:

1. Increasing renewables to minimum 27 % of EU energy use
2. improving energy efficiency by a minimum of 27 % by 2030

Remanufacturing, reuse and recyling helps to create a circular economy. Think before you buy. And even better: your waste is getting valuable. To solve nutrients, precious metals and other raw materials and of course, renewable energy.

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