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    EU Member States have approved a set of ambitious measures to make EU waste legislation fit for the future, as part of the EU's wider circular economy policy. The new rules - based on the commission's proposals as part of the Circular Economy package presented in December 2015 - will help to prevent waste and, where this is not possible, significantly step up recycling of municipal and packaging waste. It will phase out landfilling and promote the use of economic instruments, such as Extended Producer Responsibility schemes. The new legislation strengthens the "waste hierarchy", by requiring member states to take specific measures to prioritize prevention, re-use and recycling above landfilling and incineration, thus making the circular economy a reality.

    Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella says: "The final approval of new EU waste rules by the Council marks an important moment for the circular economy in Europe," says Karmenu Vell,a commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. "The new recycling and landfilling targets set a credible and ambitious path for better waste management in Europe. Our main task now is to ensure that the promises enshrined in this waste package are delivered on the ground. The commission will do all it can to support member states and make the new legislation deliver on the ground."

    The Commission had originally presented proposals for new waste rules in 2014, which were withdrawn and replaced by better designed, more circular and more ambitious proposals on December 2015 as part of the Circular Economy agenda of the Juncker Commission. These proposals were then adopted and are now part of the EU rule book.

    The new rules adopted today represent the most modern waste legislation in the world, where the EU is leading by example for others to follow.

    The rules have set a series of recycling targets for municipal waste: 55% by 2025; 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035. These targets will in part by achieved by the expansion of materials collection. Building on the existing collection obligation for paper and cardboard, glass, metals and plastic, new separate collection rules will boost the quality of secondary raw materials and their uptake: hazardous household waste will have to be collected separately by 2022, bio-waste by 2023 and textiles by 2025.

    The plan also calls for the phasing out of landfilling. The amount of municipal waste must be reduced to 10% or less by 2035.

    The new legislation foresees more use of effective economic instruments and other measures in support of the waste hierarchy. Producers are given an important role in this transition by making them responsible for their products when they become waste. New requirements for extended producer responsibility schemes will lead to improving their performance and governance. In addition, mandatory extended producer responsibility schemes have to be established for all packaging by 2024.

    European member states have already made signficant strides in improving waste management.  In 1995, on average 64% of municipal waste was landfilled in the EU. In 2000, the average had been reduced to 55% while the average recycling rate stood at 25%. In 2016, landfilling of household waste in the EU as a whole dropped to 24%, with recycling having increased to 46%. Yet, challenges and big differences between EU countries remain. In 2016 10 member states still landfilled over 50% of their household waste and six of them incinerated 40% or more.

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