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Our vision Attero strives to use its activities to make a significant contribution to a greener and more sustainable society and to solving our clients’ waste issues by maximising the potential of waste. Not just by recovering secondary raw materials, but by generating sustainable energy in the form of heat, electricity and green gas. That is how we prevent the depletion of primary raw materials and natural resources and how we can halt climate change. Our mission Attero is market leader in the Netherlands when it comes to processing a range of waste flows efficiently and sustainably. We consider it to be our task to unburden clients with one-stop solutions and to support them with achieving their ambitions in the area of reusing raw materials and using sustainable energy. Therefore we choose solutions with an optimum balance between environmental gains and justifiable costs. In this way, we aim to create social and financial value for all our stakeholders Our strategy (...)

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Response to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management

22 Feb 2022

In our perception the current legislation needs to be enforced and expanded upon. The biggest opportunity to meet the Global Methane Pledge target according to the UN's Global Methane Assessment is to limit the amount of landfilling of waste. The landfill target of 10% MSW needs to be extended to commercial & industrial waste. Countries that are not likely to meet the target need to be enforced to introduce a landfill tax that will create a business case for energy-from-waste and more recycling. According to a new study by Prognos and CE Delft (https://ce.nl/publicaties/co2-reduction-potential-in-european-waste-management/) 150 Mton of CO2eq-emissions can be saved by moving waste out of landfilling into energy-from-waste and recycling. All available EfW and recycling capacity needs to be made available within Europe, according to the study. Therefore, boundaries that limit European carbon savings should be abolished, including import/incineration taxes that make it economically unviable to move waste from landfill to EfW. In line with amendment 104 on the Circular Economy Action Plan the EfW capacity should be considered on a European level, not a national level. More recycling can be achieved by more separate collection but certain recycling streams (e.g. plastic, metals and tetras) can also be perfectly separated from MSW/C&I-waste in post-separation plants. Post-separation works perfectly in densely populated areas where source separation is difficult and costly. Therefore policy makers should embrace post-separation for specific waste streams where the quality of recycling is good. So yes for packaging, but no for biowaste. Targets on green public procurement and mandatory application of recycled content need to be made consistent with recycling targets. So if we want to recycle 50% of all plastics, authorities should procure plastic products that contain a minimum of 50% recycled content. Otherwise, the market for secundary materials will not evolve in the right direction.
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Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

23 Nov 2021 · Circular economy and plastic recycling

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and EEW Energy from Waste GmbH and

9 Jun 2020 · European Green Deal, circular encomony and waste policies