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Interessenvertretung in Sachen Recycling und Wiederverwertung von Rohstoffen und Sekundärrohstoffen

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Response to Circular Economy Act

27 Oct 2025

Gerne nehmen wir die Gelegenheit wahr, an dem Call for Evidence teilzunehmen und möchten die Aufmerksamkeit der Kommission auf die aktuellen Probleme und Schwachstellen hinweisen. Die EU steht am Scheideweg und muss entscheiden, ob sie die Kreislaufwirtschaft ernst nimmt und mit Nachdruck verfolgen will oder ob es bei Lippenbekenntnissen bleibt. Die Entwicklungen für ein harmonisierten Abfallende-Status dauern lang, die Abfallhierarchie wird nicht befolgt oder so ausgelegt wie es gerade passt. Die Zielsetzung Produkte und Rohstoffe möglichst lange im Kreislauf zu halten wird z.B. durch das chemische Recycling unterlaufen und mehr noch durch die Herstellung von Treibstoffen aus wertvollen Rezyklaten konterkariert - diese bekommen dann so schöne Namen wie "Sustainable Fuels". Ziel sollte es sein einen Kreislauf nach dem Vorbild der Natur zu erstellen, ein offenes Kreislaufwirtschafts-Ökosystem. Im Anhang erläutern wir gerne die Punkte im Detail.
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Meeting with Giuseppe Casella (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

18 Feb 2025 · End-of-life tires and PAHs REACH restriction

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament) and Amazon Europe Core SARL and

15 Nov 2023 · Sustainable Future Week (Politico) - chemicals

Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

see attached file, refering to tire recycling
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Response to Towards an EU Product Policy Framework contributing to the Circular Economy

8 May 2018

The Recycling of end of life tyres is important as the quantity of old tyres in the EU reaches 2 mio tons per annum. Recycling technology and a full scale of products made from end of life tyre rubber has been existing for decades. Yet, lawmakers in the EU and especially in Germany are starting to ban tyre rubber as raw material for many products due to it's pah-content. The EU has banned the use of extender oils in tyre production in 2010 and thus reduced the pah-Content of tyres considerably. However, the carbopn black used in tyre production still contains pah. This leads to a pah-content in tyre rubber in the range of 30 to 130 mg/kg, depending on the method of Analysis. This is too much to continue to use end of live tyre rubber as raw material for many products, namely for consumer and for many building products. Germany is on the forefront of banning tyre rubber in building products and has managed to persuade other EU- and CEN-authorities to follow it's position, f.e. by passing EN 14041, banning such products from the flooring business. If tyres in the EU were manufactured with a considerably lower level of pah, tyre rubber would continue to be a permitted raw material for consumer and building produts. From a technical standpoint this is possible. Of course, tyre manufacturers oppose the idea as to them the question what happens to their products after life is not the primary objective. The Problem is urgent as the EU has banned tyres from landfills and Germany is banning the burning of tyres. Currently many end of live tyres are being exported into third world countries, then named "Africa Quality", and hence is the EU creating an ecological Problem there that the EU has failed to solve at home so far.
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