2.5.1 Legislation recycling
Course subject(s)
Module 2. Recycling
Legislation could foster the development of recycling technologies. In this lesson Sophie Sfez discusses insights on the legislation driving the recycling of critical raw materials in Europe.
Main takeaways
- There is no individual EU Directive specifically focused on CRMs but several ones focusing on products containing CRMs.
- The key principle presented in these Directives is the Extended Producer Responsibility.
- EU Directives should be implemented in the national legislation of each member state.
- Member states can choose the measures to be implemented to reach the objectives set in the EU Directives regarding collection and recycling targets.
Some extra reading if you want to take this topic further:
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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