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Reloop is a global non-profit organization promoting a circular economy for all resources.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Luis Planas Herrera (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and ADS Insight

6 Nov 2025 · Circular Economy

Reloop Urges Mandatory Waste Sorting and Expanded Return Schemes

29 Oct 2025
Topic — This consultation gathers feedback on the upcoming European Circular Economy Act.
Message — Reloop recommends mandatory mixed waste sorting to recover materials missed by households. They also propose expanding deposit return schemes to include electronics and batteries containing critical raw materials.12
Why — This policy would drive global investment towards the specific recovery systems Reloop develops.3
Impact — Producers of virgin plastic lose their market advantage as recycled content becomes mandatory.45
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Response to EU emissions trading system for maritime, aviation and stationary installations, and market stability reserve - review

8 Jul 2025

A new study by CE Delft, in collaboration with Zero Waste Europe and Reloop, confirms that including waste incineration in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) would bring significant climate and employment benefits. Key findings include: 1. Major emissions reductions Including incineration in the EU ETS could cut CO emissions by 47 million tonnes in 2030, rising to 1832 million tonnes by 2040. 2. Job creation Shifting from incineration to recycling could generate 8,70016,400 new jobs by 2030, and 11,60021,700 by 2040, as recycling is far more labour-intensive. Please find attached the full study, along with our coalition letter calling for the inclusion of both waste incineration and landfills in the EU ETS.
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Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment)

25 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on Circular Economy Act

Meeting with Rasmus Nordqvist (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

24 Mar 2025 · Waste Framework Directive

RELOOP urges circular economy focus in Single Market Strategy

31 Jan 2025
Topic — This consultation seeks to develop a single market that promotes global competitiveness and cross-border services.
Message — Reloop advocates for harmonising end-of-waste statuses and strengthening traceability to monitor material flows across borders. They also recommend introducing taxes on virgin materials and expanding producer responsibility to sectors like construction.123
Why — These policies would increase the competitiveness of recycled materials and help recyclers scale up globally.45
Impact — Producers using virgin materials and construction firms face higher taxes and new regulatory responsibilities.67
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Meeting with Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

19 Jan 2024 · Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

19 Jan 2024 · Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament) and European Environmental Bureau and

16 Nov 2023 · Green Deal

Meeting with Nils Torvalds (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

13 Oct 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and Union of European Beverages Association

29 Jun 2023 · How well-designed Deposit and Return Systems (DRS) can contribute to the circularity transition

Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. and

8 Jun 2023 · Definitions, quotas, system requirements – How reuse measures need to be designed within the PPWR?

Meeting with Grace O'Sullivan (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.

7 Jun 2023 · Reuse in the PPWR (attended by an assistant)

Reloop demands stricter glass recycling rules and data transparency

24 Apr 2023
Topic — Reviewing EU requirements to reduce packaging waste and improve circularity and recycling.
Message — Reloop requests including glass in mandatory deposit-return systems and establishing a negative list of non-recyclable packaging. They also demand public access to national waste data to ensure better accountability and scrutiny.123
Why — Enhanced data transparency would allow the group to hold governments accountable for waste performance.4
Impact — Glass producers would lose their economic advantage over other materials like plastic and metal.5
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Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Apr 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Nils Torvalds (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

11 Apr 2023 · Packaging and packagingwaste

Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Apr 2023 · Packaging and Packaging Waste

Meeting with João Pimenta Lopes (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

10 Mar 2023 · Packaging and packaging waste regulation

Meeting with Luisa Regimenti (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Haleon and Suntory Beverage Food Europe

28 Feb 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Patrizia Toia (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Feb 2023 · Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (meeting taken by the assistant responsible)

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

1 Feb 2023 · Packaging Waste

Meeting with Ville Niinistö (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Oct 2022 · recycled carbon fuels (staff level)

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and ADS Insight

26 Apr 2022 · Revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and deposit return schemes

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

22 Feb 2022

I am Clarissa Morawski CEO and co-founder to Reloop Platform. We are submitting a commissioned report by Dr. Dominic Hogg, The Case for Sorting Recyclables from Residual Waste. The report is comprehensive in its scope, and addresses proposed changes to the WFD, while at the same time offering additional proposals for complimentary policies within the EU. In addition to the submission of the report, we would like to bring attention to the fact that ¨high-quality recycling¨, which is referred to in Article 11 is never properly defined. This is especially important given the circularity and avoided GHGs from recycling which is closed-loop (multiple cycles) in nature. The exponential benefits of multiple loops in terms of the reduction of GHGs and primary resource extraction should be acknowledged in the WFD through a proper definition. The hierarchy (article 4) should be further refined to account for ¨high quality recycling¨ versus ¨lower quality recycling¨. In addition, ¨chemical recycling¨ should be properly defined in the hierarchy, especially as it pertains to measuring recycled-content in the future.
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Meeting with Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and ADS Insight and Eunomia Research & Consulting Limited

18 Jun 2021 · Implementation of the single-use plastics directive and separate collection of beverage bottles.

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and ADS Insight and Eunomia Research & Consulting Limited

18 Jun 2021 · Implementation of the single-use plastics directive and separate collection of beverage bottles

Response to Calculation, verification and reporting of data on the separate collection of SUP beverage bottles

16 Jun 2021

Reloop welcomes the development of the draft Implementing Decision in order to ensure correct implementation of Article 9 SUPD on setting separate collection targets for beverage bottles. We are concerned that the current draft is ambiguous, and can be intepreted to include bottles pulled from mix-waste/residual waste. We understand that there are some interested parties attempting to get support for a re-interpretation of the definition of ‘separate collection’, as defined in Article 3(11) of the Waste Framework Directive “where a waste stream is kept separately by type and nature so as to facilitate a specific treatment”. This is a dangerous precedent and will lead to downgrading of separate collection systems which will impact the quality of plastic bottles collected for high quality recycling. The proposed draft does not adequately ensure that plastic beverage containers and their caps / lids are kept from flowing into rivers and oceans, and it does not adequately support the development of a secondary raw materials market for closed loop recycling. We regret the omission of quality requirements (i.e., food contact or comparable quality requirement) for outputs resulting from separate collection under Article 2(4)(b), which were included in the previous versions of the draft Implementing Decision. This will significantly undermine Member States ability to comply with the recycled content targets set in Article 6(5) because they will have greater difficulty accessing high quality, food grade material to integrate safely into their bottles in countries where the main route to compliance with the targets is through approaches described in Article 2(4)(b) and 2(5) of draft Implementing Decision. Pulling recyclables from mixed residual waste for further processing and recycling offers possibilities to further increase recycling rates for many products and materials, however, this does not apply to Article 9 of SUPD. Article 9 clearly infers that only those plastic beverage bottles that are collected separately can be counted towards the targets. Article 9 is about separate collection targets, unlike the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and Waste Framework Directive, which set recycling targets. If MSs´ interpretation of separate collection is to include bottles from residual/mixed waste towards the calculation of the Article 9 target, there are a number of consequences to be aware of: 1) It will have no impact on litter reduction, which is the primary goal of the SUPD 2) It will lead to the introduction of lower quality material into the recycling system where PET bottles could be recycled and used as content in food-grade applications. 3) It will undermine the whole purpose of Article 9, which is about attaining a high target for separate collection, and not about collection from the residual/mixed waste bin. 4) It will undermine potential investments into increased collection and sorting initiatives (such as investment in more collection and better sorting centers) by producers through their EPR investments. 5) It will undermine education and awareness raising initiatives to encourage greater participation in separate collection, which Member States are required to provide under Article 10 of SUPD. It sends the wrong message to consumers that they can just put the bottle in the residual waste bin and does not incentivise them to separate their waste. The the basis for reporting, and the relevant equations to calculate performance against the targets in Article 9 remain somewhat too general, and do not give sufficient confidence that the performance measurement will be of the required accuracy, given the different approaches which could be taken under Paragraph 2(4) to undertake ‘separate collection’. We submit a position paper which provides a deeper dive in the issues described above.
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Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Zero Waste Europe and

8 Jun 2021 · Circular economy, waste management and deposit return schemes

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and Zero Waste Europe and

8 Jun 2021 · Circular economy, waste management and deposit return schemes

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

22 Sept 2020 · Circular economy and single-use plastics

Response to Reducing marine litter: action on single use plastics and fishing gear

11 Jan 2018

Inception impact assessment on the EU’s initiative “Reducing marine litter: action on single use plastics and fishing gear.” Reloop welcomes this initiative as it recognises the importance of setting up progressive and binding EU legislative measures to combat single use plastics. Reloop moreover applauds the suggestion to stimulate deposit return schemes (DRS) to improve the collection rate of items already covered by separate collection schemes, but also recommends using the measure for other items such as fishing nets and disposable cups. As an effective waste prevention and reduction measure, DRS can achieve a return rates of more than 90%. DRS can also play a key role in ensuring a sufficient supply of high-quality feedstock for re-processors. The benefits of deposit were acknowledged during the G20 Summit in Hambourg in July 2017 as well as during the Third Session of the UN Environment Assembly in December 2017, where environment ministers adopted a resolution on marine litter and microplastics which encourages the use of container deposit schemes. Reloop also believes that other measures can effectively reduce the presence of single use plastics and abandoned, lost and otherwise discarded fishing gear, including the following: • The introduction of mandatory recycled content for packaging; • The introduction of new and high recycling and reuse targets for plastics (which will provide economic and employment opportunities for Member States); • The Introduction of deposit return system to incentivize high collection and recycling rates for some products, like beverage containers, fishing boxes and other fishing gear. • The setting up of separate, material and product specific recycling targets; • The phasing out of plastic microbeads; • The development of a EU framework for biodegradable and compostable plastics, which would include harmonised definition, clear marking for consumers and exclude the use of oxo-degradable plastics. Finally, Reloop thinks that EU funding streams could also play a significant role in helping Member States to develop and improve their sorting and recycling technologies. More information about our views can be found in our Position Paper on the upcoming European Commission Strategy on Plastics (attached). You are also welcome to contact us with direct questions. CLARISSA MORAWSKI, +34-636-70-80-95
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Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

25 Oct 2017 · Exchange of views on the Plastic Strategy

Meeting with Karmenu Vella (Commissioner) and

19 Jan 2017 · Circular Economy