RREUSE joins the Fiscal Matters Coalition and other stakeholders to urge the European Parliament Members (MEPs) to champion the creation of a Next Generation 2.0 fund. The extra public investment capacity created by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) has...
Today marks the EU's overshoot day. If the rest of the world consumed resources at the same rate as the EU, we would run out of all the natural resources the planet can provide for the entire year by May 3rd. On this significant day, RREUSE and 317 civil society...
Together with over 80 organisations and academics, RREUSE co-signed the open letter initiated by the Fiscal Matters Coalition to call on higher social and environmental public investments as a key priority for the 2024 - 2029 EU mandate. The letter, addressed to all...
RREUSE has joined forces with over 100 organisations to demand an EU legislation on Sustainable Resource Management. This collective endorsement reflects a shared vision and commitment to address the fundamental challenges at the root of the global crisis and to...
RREUSE joins more than 20 organisations of the European Alliance for a Just Transition in calling on the Council of the EU to put a strong policy framework for a just transition at the heart of the next European Union’s political agenda.The next EU cycle should...
Over 80 leaders from international networks, NGOs, and national organisations from 18 European countries have joined their voices in an open letter. Focusing on the urgent issue of textile waste, RREUSE and co-signatories call on policy makers to unlock the potential...
With this letter, RREUSE and 16 partner organisations call on EU Member States and the Council to support the provisions on the social and due diligence dimensions of the ESPR, which were approved by a large majority of the European Parliament in July 2023.
RREUSE, along with 10 other NGOs and business associations, urges EU lawmakers to incorporate waste prevention and local re-use as guiding principles into future EPR schemes for mandatory textile separate collection.
RREUSE contributed to the drafting of an open letter by the Right to Repair Coalition that highlights the importance of including ambitious circularity provisions within the Critical Raw Material Act. This call to action comes at the start of the inter-institutional negotiations on this piece of legislation.
RREUSE, ECOS, and Deutsche Umwelthilfe produced a joint position paper on a reducing our dependency on Critical Raw Materials, which was submitted as answer to the consultation following the publication of the Regulation. Critical raw materials are used in a growing array of products, including renewable energy technologies, electronic and electrical equipment, and batteries for electric vehicles.
RREUSE joined forces with many other organisations to release a Call to Action for the Just Transition. The organisations call on European Ministers for Environment and Energy, as well as other EU and national level decisionmakers, to complement the implementation of urgently needed, ambitious environmental and climate policies with robust social policies that protect marginalised people primarily and the regions suffering disproportionately from the transition, whilst guaranteeing access to high-quality essential services for all. They call on them to show bold and forward-thinking political leadership by prioritising the promotion of climate action and social justice as one coherent and mutually reinforcing agenda.
At the initiative of Runder Tisch Reparatur, a German organisation composed of repairers, NGOs, consumer organisation, scientists and local repair initiatives, a joint letter was sent to the European Commissioners Margrethe Vestager (Competition) and Karmenu Vella...