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Biorefineries integrate biomass conversion processes to manufacture a variety of products, sometimes also producing bioenergy. They are, therefore, a key element in European bioeconomy and often...

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This study aims to bring forward a preliminary assessment of policy options for a possible review of the Sewage Sludge Directive. The main problem identified is that current sludge management is not...

Five years on from the launch of the European Green Deal, the JRC publishes the most comprehensive study to date of progress on the Green Deal’s broad objectives.

With increasing textile consumption and limited sorting and recycling capacities, the EU faces major challenges in terms of managing its textile waste. This study investigates the environmental and socio-economic...

A slow start of the green transition, currently perceived as imposed by the EU, can get a boost by using the smart specialisation approach also as a tool to address climate and environmental...

The general objective of this study is to summarise the techno-scientific knowledge base of different recycling, recovery and disposal options for waste textiles.

The European Consumer Food Waste Forum, to which the Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights contributed, gathered data and identified a variety of evidence-based, practical solutions to reduce food...

The Bioeconomy is both an enabler and an end for the European Green Deal transformation: achieving the EGD transformation entails transforming the very meaning of sustainable bioeconomy. Among the deepest and most...

The EU CSS action plan foresees the development of a framework to define safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) criteria for chemicals and materials. The SSbD is an approach to support the design, development...