Waste and recycling - All Publications

Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy, reversing biodiversity loss, providing healthy food, safeguarding human health, and halting desertification and land degradation.

Forests are under pressure by inadequate management practices and climate changes. This research is based on the latest scientific evidence to show how biodiversity, the bioeconomy and climate change mitigation are underpinned by Europe's forests.

All documents - proposal for a new regulation on waste shipments.

All documents - EU soil strategy for 2030.

All documents - Proposal for a regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation.

The EU soil strategy for 2030 sets out a framework and concrete measures to protect and restore soils, and ensure that they are used sustainably.

The proposal for a Regulation to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradation aims to guarantee that the products that EU citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation and forest degradation within the EU and globally.

The proposal for a new Regulation on waste shipments aims to ensure that the EU does not export its waste challenges to third countries and support a clean and circular economy.

This toolkit presents economic instruments used in the EU Member States to make polluters pay.