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Colloque SYPRED 7/11/2024 Pacte vert, pacte de prospérité durable

Colloque SYPRED 7/11/2024 Pacte vert, pacte de prospérité durable

  Il faut cesser d’opposer protection de l’environnement et croissance économique : disposer d’une production non toxique et décarbonée serait un formidable avantage concurrentiel mondial et une opportunité unique pour réindustrialiser et maintenir une industrie durable en Europe. Quant aux humains, ils cesseraient d’être les malades des substances polluantes qui les entourent aujourd’hui dans leur vie quotidienne. Pourtant, par calcul court-termiste, certains continuent d’espérer et de proposer des reculs de la réglementation environnementale. Or, en maintenant l’Europe dans le toxique et le fossile, ces régressions n’auraient-elles pas pour effet de reléguer notre continent à l’écart de la course mondiale des technologies non toxiques et décarbonées, de laisser le champ libre à d’autres régions du monde, de tuer dans l’oeuf notre projet de devenir les champions mondiaux des technologies vertes ? La question de fond est donc celle-ci : pour que  le pacte vert devienne un pacte de prospérité durable à part entière, faut-il alléger la réglementation environnementale européenne ou au contraire la compléter, et si oui, de quelle manière ? Ce colloque vous propose de réfléchir ensemble à la manière de piloter cette évolution, aux réglementations capables de consolider cette transformation. Les intervenants vous présenteront des exemples d’entreprises qui ont choisi, les unes de produire non toxique, d’autres de fournir des services environnementaux pour l’industrie et qui conjuguent harmonieusement protection

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European Solvent Recycler Group and Hazardous Waste Europe – Press Release

European Solvent Recycler Group and Hazardous Waste Europe – Press Release

Organic solvents play a vital role delivering wide benefits to society in producing modern materials including medicines and surface coatings. Post use requires responsible management of resulting waste streams. The European Solvent Recycler Group (ESRG) and Hazardous Waste Europe (HWE) are pleased to announce a programme of co-operation sharing a common interest in promoting high standards to the management of hazardous waste organic solvent streams. Both parties wish to see Sustainability and Environment policies and their associated legislation to be relevant, correctly targeted, and properly implemented and enforced. Joint overall aims of HWE and ESRG’s co-operation is to promote the waste hierarchy and in particular the European Union chemicals strategy developed under the auspices of the sustainability and circular economy agendas. Both entities wish to ensure there is no dispersion of waste or residues, no dilution of waste and emissions in the environment and to ensure traceability throughout the entire waste management chain of solvent recycling and recovery and similarly for other hazardous wastes. In respect of a circular economy contribution and carbon neutrality objective, independent studies have demonstrated that by recovering and reusing organic solvents, savings of up to 90% Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions can be attained compared with the replacing of used solvents by new. Note for Editors: More information is at http://www.esrg-online.eu and www.hazardouswasteeurope.eu ____________________________ HAZARDOUS WASTE EUROPE (HWE) is an international trade body established in 2011 representing 155

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BRS COPs : A step further towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for a Toxic Free Environment!

BRS COPs : A step further towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for a Toxic Free Environment!

HAZARDOUS WASTE EUROPE was present at the BRS COPs in Geneva Very positive decisions were taken and important revised Technical Guidelines have been adopted or progresses have been made in others for an Environmentally Sound Management of hazardous wastes and other wastes. Also a very good initiative from the Présidence française du Conseil de l’Union européenne, the European Commission and its Member States consisting in gathering challenges in the application of the PIC procedure. Ready to work on this in the coming months! Meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions: http://www.brsmeas.org/20212022COPs/Overview/tabid/8395/language/fr-CH/Default.aspx

Taxonomy and hazardous waste management, Chapter #1

Taxonomy and hazardous waste management, Chapter #1

Hazardous waste Europe really welcomes the outcome of the draft report on the preliminary recommendations for Technical Screening Criteria (TSC) for the EU taxonomy developed by the Technical Working Group of the platform on Sustainable Finance. We fully endorse the high level of ambition in the TSCs for separate collection, transport and treatment of hazardous waste as a means for pollution prevention and control (subchapters 13.1, 13.2 & 13.3): 👍Ensure strict separation of hazardous waste from non-hazardous waste for collection & transport 👍Avoid blending or mixing leading to dilution of hazardous waste and consequences due to inappropriate treatments 👍Ban organic hazardous waste in facilities treating hazardous waste prior to hazardous waste landfilling 👍Prevent or reduce at the minimum the discharge of priority substances and priority hazardous substances in water bodies due to indirect discharge via inappropriate wastewater treatment plants 👍Avoid mismanagement of POP waste, mercury waste and problematic health care waste 👍Guaranty that facilities benefiting from derogations under article 15.4 to the IED will never be taxonomy-aligned HWE would have liked to see the same level of ambition in other sectors (at least regarding derogations mentioned just above…) whose core business is not the treatment of hazardous waste but where hazardous waste end in conditions which lead to uneven playing field with our sector dedicated to the treatment of hazardous

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HWE participated in the 2019 Triple COPs in Geneva

HWE participated in the 2019 Triple COPs in Geneva

The 2019 Triple COPs took place in Geneva from the 29th of April to the 10th of May. Governments from across the world have converged on Geneva this week for discussions and decisions aiming at protecting human health and the environment from chemicals and waste. The theme of the COP were  » Clean Planet, Healthy People: Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste ». HWE participated actively as observer to the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel ans Stockholm Conventions.  

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