A new economic category for abundant goods — anti-rival goods that increase in value when shared — forms the basis of research to be conducted by ATARCA consortium. ATARCA aims to create a new economic system in which digital goods are no longer traded with mediums of exchange, such as fiat money, but with mediums of sharing. 

HELSINKI, BARCELONA, ZUG - Feb. 11 2021 - For Immediate Release 

Brussels, 11 February 2021. ESWET welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the EU Emissions Trading System’s revision (EU ETS). The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Waste-to-Energy contributes by treating the fraction of municipal waste unfit for recycling, as a part of the Effort Sharing Regulation.

• This global milestone in the history of recycling has been possible thanks to the coordinated effort and work of each of the organisations that operate in each country and that make up EucoLight

• EucoLight members have collected a total of more than 250,000 tonnes of lamps for recycling, an equivalent of two billion units

The European Parliament’s negotiator on the e-Privacy regulation, Birgit Sippel MEP, has called for trilogue talks between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission to start as soon as possible, after years of member states blocking progress. E-Privacy rules will give citizens control over how their confidential information can be used or shared online.

Birgit Sippel, negotiator on the e-Privacy regulation, said:

In the previous Action Plan, the EU Commission had mainly focused on products’ end-of-life, setting ambitious targets for recycling; today’s report on the Circular Economy Action Plan goes beyond that and aims at setting sustainable and eco-friendly standards to the projecting and production of products.