{"id":154168,"date":"2024-11-25T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=154168"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:19:36","slug":"europe-missing-out-on-the-potential-of-bio-waste-with-almost-75-ending-up-in-landfills-or-incinerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/europe-missing-out-on-the-potential-of-bio-waste-with-almost-75-ending-up-in-landfills-or-incinerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe missing out on the potential of bio-waste with almost 75% ending up in landfills or incinerated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The collection of bio-waste became mandatory in EU Member States on 1 January 2024 following the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). However, the current capture across the EU27 (plus Norway and the UK) is only 5,112,788 tonnes per year,\u00a0below 26% of the theoretical potential.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of bio-waste (garden and food waste), which could be a valuable feedstock for the bio-based industries and biomanufacturing is currently unused, representing a missed opportunity. Valorising bio-waste can alleviate Europe\u2019s food waste challenge and stimulate sustainable growth. This is particularly relevant as the EU prioritises strategic autonomy, competitiveness, circularity and the green transition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Bio-based Industries Consortium\u00a0(BIC), Europe\u2019s leading industry association putting circularity, innovation and sustainability at the heart of the European bioeconomy, has teamed up with\u00a0Zero Waste Europe\u00a0(ZWE) to produce a second edition of our report identifying the untapped potential to valorise bio-waste in Europe. \u201cBio-waste generation in the EU: Current capture levels and future potential\u201d has been published today on the BIC website. Since the first edition four years ago which showed a capture rate of 16% of the theoretical potential, the current figure shows improvement of less than 10%.

The report, which includes country factsheets, provides examples of how the bio-based industries contribute to tackling this waste challenge, as well as citing best practices in waste management at municipal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe bio-based sector is already valorising bio-waste in smart and efficient processes. A number of BIC\u2019s members are companies that use innovative methods to convert bio-waste into high-value bio-based products,,\u201d says BIC Executive Director Dirk Carrez<\/strong>. \u201cMore efficiently capturing bio-waste, will allow more of it to be valorised in the bio-based industries and especially for biomanufacturing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that bio-waste remains deprioritised across much of the EU, even despite the new requirement for separate collection. Given the fact that only 26% of food waste is captured across the EU, it’s clear much stronger action is needed. There is widespread recognition now of the best practices to collect and treat bio-waste. What is evident is the need for revised EU legislation that sets legally binding targets for the quality of bio-waste captured, and a cap on residual waste generation per capita, which would incentivise better bio-waste collection and treatment across the EU-27,” summarises Jack McQuibban, ZWE\u2019s Head of Local Implementation<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to read the full report<\/a>\u00a0(25.73 MB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Bio-based Industries Consortium<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Bio-based Industries Consortium\u00a0(BIC) is a non-profit organisation aiming to make Europe\u2019s innovative, sustainable and competitive bio-based industry the leader of a circular bio-society in Europe by 2050. Its membership includes 300+ Industry Members covering the whole value chain, from primary production to the market, across multiple and diverse sectors including agriculture & agri-food, aquaculture & marine, chemicals and materials, including bioplastics, forestry and pulp & paper, market sectors, technology providers and waste management & treatment. BIC also represents the private sector in a 2 billion euro Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the European Commission, focused on strengthening the bio-based industries sector in Europe \u2013 the\u00a0Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Zero Waste Europe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Zero Waste Europe\u00a0(ZWE) is the European network of communities, local leaders, experts, and change agents working towards a better use of resources and the elimination of waste in our society. We advocate for sustainable systems; for the redesign of our relationship with resources; and for a global shift towards environmental justice, accelerating a just transition towards zero waste for the benefit of people and the planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The collection of bio-waste became mandatory in EU Member States on 1 January 2024 following the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). However, the current capture across the EU27 (plus Norway and the UK) is only 5,112,788 tonnes per year,\u00a0below 26% of the theoretical potential.\u00a0 The vast majority of bio-waste (garden and food waste), which could be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":154185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The\u00a0Bio-based Industries Consortium\u00a0(BIC) together with\u00a0Zero Waste Europe\u00a0(ZWE) to produce a second edition of the report identifying the untapped potential to valorise bio-waste in Europe","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[17299,16735,10416,21187],"supplier":[11909,19472,13099],"class_list":["post-154168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biomanufacturing","tag-biowaste","tag-circulareconomy","tag-residues","supplier-bio-based-industries-consortium-bic","supplier-circular-bio-based-europe-joint-undertaking-cbe-ju","supplier-zero-waste-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154168"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=154168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}