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“Combating Global Climate Change and Improving International Cooperation in Waste Management.”

In recent years, the European Union has accelerated its steps in this direction by setting circular economy as a strategic goal. Aiming to recycle 75% of packaging waste by 2030, the EU aims to increase this rate to 65% for municipal waste. 

In the European Union, effective strategy and planning studies that raise public awareness on waste prevention and support reduction by waste type have been carried to an advanced stage with new orientations in 2010 and beyond. In the studies where the best practices were included in the new planning, it was aimed to ensure strong prevention and reduction and effective recycling.  On June 2, 2014, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a new regulation and its annexes to revise the EU Waste Management Framework Regulation 2008/98/EC, the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC, and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC with respect to recycling and other waste-related targets. This new proposal aims to help Europe transition to a circular economy, increase recycling, secure access to raw materials, create jobs and drive economic growth.
Proposal; increase the rate of recycling and reuse of municipal waste to 70% by 2030, increase the rate of recycling and reuse of packaging waste to 80% (increasing recycling between 2020 and 2030 and reaching 90% for paper in 2025), with a gradual increase according to waste type, end landfilling for recyclables (plastics, paper, wood, metal, glass and biomass) by 2025 (60% for plastics, 80% for wood, 90% for glass, metal and aluminum by the end of 2030), thus reaching a maximum of 25% non-hazardous waste landfilling.

By 2025, take measures to reduce the generation of food waste by 30%, establish an early warning system in Member States to monitor potential compliance challenges, develop and disseminate best practices in Member States, and improve the traceability of hazardous waste, the waste generator in the polluter-pays principle - detailing its responsibility in a cost-effective manner by determining the minimum conditions for its activities, simplifying the reporting obligation in SMEs, removing obsolete legal definitions in waste regulations, harmonizing definitions and ensuring end-to-end consistency.

Today, where natural resources play a key role in the quality of human life, countries review their activities not only for themselves but also for the benefit of the whole world. In today's conditions, where secondary resources are as valuable as natural resources, the "3R" (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) principle adopted by industrial circles is supported in order to implement the sustainable development and circular economy model. These stages, which we can call manufacturers' waste reduction, reuse and recycling, play a major role in eliminating environmental concerns and supporting technological developments, as well as recycling.

On the other hand, the European Union will only accept 10% of all waste generated in solid waste landfills for disposal. While the EU shapes its entire circular economy, it also emphasizes the economic dimension of the issue. By 2030, it is calculated that with the reuse of waste as secondary raw material in Europe, an annual contribution of 600 billion Euros will be made to the EU economy.

The organization of IREMCON International Environment Conference was initiated in 2015 to strengthen international cooperation by bringing together the leading institutions of the waste sector and public/private sector organizations in the Balkans within the scope of the issues summarized above, an effective waste management based on industrialization and legislative harmonization. The target audience of IREMCON is all public institutions and organizations related to waste management and recycling, as well as the service and manufacturing sectors.