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17 March 2023

Decarbonisation: energy neutrality for wastewater treatment

Updating of the Urban Waste Water Directive (UWWD): raising European purification standards by 2040. The cornerstones are: extension of the perimeter of agglomerations subject to obligations, new limits for the concentration of pollutants and introduction of quaternary treatment obligations. To these are added the Integrated Plans for the management of wastewater, the establishment of producer responsibility for pollutants released by the products introduced and the request for energy neutrality for the treatment of effluents.

09 March 2023

EU Commission wants 10% of critical raw materials mined in Europe (EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act)

According to EURACTIV.com, the EU believes that "10% of the Union's consumption of strategic raw materials" should be extracted in the Union. In addition, 15% of the Union's annual consumption of each critical raw material is expected to come from recycling, reads the updated document of the Législation sur les matières premières critiques (En cours 08/03/2023)

03 March 2023

On sustainability, fashion always plays in defense and is late in lobbying

Other industries have a long and established history of lobbying, but fashion has lagged behind, Vogue writes, widening the gap between industry players and policymakers. Fashion legislation is increasing. In France, the Greenwashing Act (écoblanchiment); in California, extended producer responsibility (EPR); and the EU's European Green Deal. But brands and their supply chains stutter, seem unprepared for change and fail to lobby. [Fashion has a lobbying gap - Vogue Business]

01 March 2023

EU wants to crack down on greenwashing with "proportionate" penalties. Draft plan addresses exaggerated claims about product environmental credentials

Companies will have 10 days to justify green claims about their products or face “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” penalties, under a draft EU crackdown on greenwashing seen by the Guardian. [EU to crack down on greenwashing with ‘proportionate’ penalties – Guardian]

17 February 2023

Europe closer to ‘green steel’

Europe’s first “green steel” plant could produce its first batch of steel by 2025. [The race across Europe to build green steel plants - BBC News]

28 January 2023

Among the various problems facing the fashion industry, the issue of wages is among the most controversial

Garment workers, particularly those who work hard in the Global South, do not have living wages, but they are chronically underpaid, meaning they are almost always struggling to pay for food, housing, medicine and other necessities. When Covid-19 hit, hundreds of thousands who were laid off or had their hours truncated teetered on the brink of starvation and destitution. [What to Know About Vietnam's Living Wage Experiment - sourcingjournal.com]

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