by Dudley Curtis | Mar 6, 2015 | News
Spain is the first European country to require a proportion of some types of waste electrical and electronic products (WEEE) to be prepared for re-use rather than recycled or burned. The move last month to introduce a separate national quantitative target for re-use,...
by Jana Zurkova | Nov 28, 2014 | News
During European Week for Waste Reduction (24-28 November), 79 re-use centres in 5 EU countries collected 709 tonnes of goods and re-used 79 tonnes. These are goods that would otherwise have been wasted. The campaign forms part of RREUSE’s call for the EU to...
by Dudley Curtis | May 20, 2014 | News
300,000 new jobs could be created in Europe if separate re-use targets are included in the Circular Economy Package according to a new report published today. The research for the European Environmental Bureau by Dr. Jane Beasley and Ray Georgeson sets out a number of...
by Dudley Curtis | Oct 4, 2011 | Press Releases
As an organisation representing European social enterprises and networks, whose main activities are primarily re-use and recycling, we very much welcome the result of the ENVI Committee vote today on the WEEE Recast. In order to increase the amount of re-use...