Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Courses Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials Course materials Lectures 2.5.1 Legislation recycling

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.

https://youtu.be/l8qkAgk8cSw

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:

Creative Commons License
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/waste-management-and-critical-raw-materials/.
Back to top
[sg_popup id=6]