The agenda for Tuesday's EU Environment Council meeting included a recently added item: "support for recyclers in the current economic context". Introducing the discussion, EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall stressed that circularity was only possible with a strong recycling industry. However, "the EU recycling industry is facing several simultaneous challenges undermining its competitiveness and long-term viability," she said, naming very high energy costs, market volatility, price imbalance between primary and secondary raw materials and unfair competition from cheap imports as the most serious challenges. ...
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