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Save the date for Europe’s leading environmental conference in Brussels from 3-5 June.
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A new study has outlined how academia, government, industry, civil society and the environment can come together to tackle the growing challenge of microplastic pollution.
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The revised Directive will strengthen treatment rules, ensuring a higher level of protection for the public and the environment.
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Trustworthy, informative, enlightening and insightful: these were some of the key takeaways from the webinar "When Beauty Meets Green", which aimed to explain the opportunities offered by the EU Ecolabel for cosmetic products.
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A new Joint Research Centre study suggests classification, collection, and recycling rules to help reuse the materials batteries contain.
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The formal application process will end on 21 February 2025.
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After two years of negotiations and a week of talks in South Korea, UN member states failed to reach an agreement. Talks will continue in 2025.
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Final negotiations on the deal start this week in Busan, South Korea, with the aim of tackling worldwide plastic pollution.
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A new JRC report has assessed the potential of various products to be regulated under the new EU Ecodesign regulation, aimed at making sustainable products the norm in Europe.
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Join the webinar ‘ When beauty meets green: the EU Ecolabel for cosmetic products ’ on 11 December 2024 to learn all you need to know about the EU Ecolabel, its future perspectives, and the opportunities it offers cosmetics producers to showcase the environmental credentials of their products.