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From Waste to Resource: Reforming End-of-Waste Criteria through Standards

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This fact sheet is based on the findings of the RISERS project and provides an overview of the EU’s present End-of-Waste (EoW) system, highlighting main regulatory pathways, challenges that arise, and real case studies. It explains how dispersed regulation and excessively complex procedures hinder circular economy development and cross-border trade. The factsheet further presents the RISERS proposal to replace traditional EoW criteria with harmonized standards, to simplify waste-to-secondary raw material transition and facilitate industrial symbiosis in Europe.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17465964

Authors: Woodcock, James, Page, Faye, Korcz, Mateusz

Institution: Institute For Ecology of Industrial Areas

Language: English

Topic: Sustainable Industrial Ecology

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission