Industrial Minerals


European Commission releases "resource efficiency roadmap"

28 September 2011


EU calls for waste to be treated like a resource; supports recycling markets

By Keith Nuthall

The European Commission has released another long term raw materials strategy as it tries to boost the recycling and re-use of more valuable minerals that would otherwise be landfilled.

 

This latest strategy has been developed by the Commission’s environment directorate general and has been christened a ‘Resource Efficiency Roadmap’. It looks towards 2050.

 

Generally, it argues for a reshaping of EU markets, prices, taxes...