From rubbish to riches: Central and Eastern Europe’s circular economy boom

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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency: By 2030, the use of raw materials must be halved. The Netherlands set itself this goal in 2016. Other countries also want…

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From rubbish to riches: Central and Eastern Europe’s circular economy boom

Landfills once defined Central and Eastern Europe’s approach to waste management, but today a wave of policy reforms, tech-savvy start-ups, and canny investors is building a different legacy: an economy that prizes reusing, recycling, and reinventing yesterday’s rubbish into tomorrow’s resources. In the quest to decouple economic growth from resource consumption, the circular economy has emerged as a guiding principle across the European Union. …

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France is in despair over the deindustrialization that has been affecting the country for several decades now.