All Environment Publications

Commission Delegated Regulation setting out derogations from the prohibition of the destruction of unsold consumer products.

Commission Implementing Regulation on the details and format for the disclosure of information on discarded unsold consumer products.

Recycling waste concrete is essential to sustainably manage the large amounts produced by urban expansion. Using Shanghai, China, as a case study, this research presents a model to assess the carbon reduction potential of concrete recycling methods. This serves as a tool for decision-makers.

Moving from a carbon economy to a bioeconomy, where biological, renewable resources are prioritised over finite resources, is becoming a policy priority. This study analyses the policy instruments supporting this transition, finding that strategies tend to promote innovation but neglect regulation.

Cleaning synthetic textiles in washing machines introduces microplastics to wastewater. This study assesses a method of upcycling this waste through heating, finding it able to produce carbon nanomaterials that may be useful across a range of technologies and industries – and supporting circularity.

This study offers a comprehensive model of the EU’s entire waste management system, looking at both waste generation and waste collection. It highlights the need for renewed attention on biowaste, mineral waste and industrial sludge, as well as the separation of recyclable and mixed waste.

Using data from 279 Chinese cities, this study examines the relationship between green finance and the circular economy. It finds that with good regulation green finance can promote the circular economy, drive innovation and social lending, and help achieve carbon neutrality, among other effects.

Bioplastics are sustainable, biodegradable alternatives to fossil fuel produced plastics. This study outlines a strategy to produce the bioplastic polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). It uses diverse communities of photosynthetic microbes (cyanobacteria) to make PHB using sunlight and carbon dioxide.

The report "Europe’s Environment 2025" contains scientific evidence that climate change and environmental degradation continue to affect Europe’s competitiveness, economy and resilience.