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Swedish Recycling Industries´ Assocation

SRI

Lobby for market based regulations for the waste management and recycling sector including Increased material recycling Develop the market conditions for recycled raw materials Open up the household waste market. Ensure fair competition between private recycling industry and municpalities/municipality owned companies acting on the competitive market. Development of the producer responsibility schemes to become more market oriented. Cash ban on scarp recycling.

Lobbying Activity

Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

The Swedish Recycling Industries' Association is an organisation of Swedish companies working within the recycling field. The organisation was established in 1998. The Swedish Recycling Industries' Association member companies represent the main part of the recycling market in Sweden. The organisation is a member of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. The use of recycled materials makes an important contribution to several of the Sustainable Development Goals in Agenda 30, including sustainable cities, sustainable consumption, climate change, oceans and marine resources, and ecosystems. Policies for increased circulation; It is time for a paradigm shift – from linear to circular material flows. A shift that is necessary in order for Sweden/ EU to reach the target of net zero emissions by 2045. Business plays a crucial role in the transition and several Swedish companies are at the cutting edge of innovation. However, the policy environment must create the conditions for a circular economy by setting targets and creating clear incentives for a profitable and functioning market. Our demands; - Introduce national targets for recycled material in products entering the Swedish market. There are currently targets in place for collection and recycling, but not for utilization of recycled materials. Create a roadmap for increased use of recycled material. - Introduce economic incentives that make recycled materials more competitive on the market and increase demand for them. - Create the conditions for circular material flows through flexible and efficient systems and repeal municipal monopolies over waste collection. - Instruct the National Agency for Public Procurement to develop criteria ensuring that recycled materials are prioritized, and integrate requirements for recycled materials into the Swedish Public Procurement Act accordingly. - Introduce general standards to ensure that products and materials entering the European market are designed for recycling. - Introduce requirements that recyclable materials be sorted from waste streams headed for incineration or landfill.
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Response to Commission Regulation amending Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC

17 Aug 2016

The Swedish Recycling Industries´Association (SR´s) is, in line with the position of EuRIC, highly concerned that the proposed Commission Regulation amending Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC as regards the hazardous property HP 14 (ʻEcotoxic’), based on the outcome of “Study to assess the impacts of different classification approaches for hazard property "HP 14" preferring the calculation method 1 for classification purposes, will adversely impact recycling. The Study, used as a basis for the draft Commission Regulation, is based on an extremely limited dataset not allowing to draw conclusions relying on solid scientific evidence. An approach relying on chemical analysis, as it is the case with method 1, is technically unfit for characterisation of complex solid waste streams. The method risk overestimate the ecotoxic hazard potential of complex waste materials and will have a big impact on waste classification. More waste will be classified as hazardous waste (e.g. bottom ash and fluff-light fractions). Given the limitations of the chemical analysis approach, it would be justified to develop a harmonized test battery (leaching test and biotests) which is scientifically fit for purpose of assessing the ecotoxicity of complex solid waste streams instead of relying on a preferred method 1 which is inadequate for assessing HP 14 for complex streams. Such a method should be harmonised with the CLP regulation and the REACH regulation, i.e. method 2 from the study on HP14. If a decision on method 1 is taken it is SRI´s view that it must possible to make exemptions and e g use method 2 where harmonized classifications are available. Such a decision should also be followed by an action plan to develop test methods, harmonize it with the CLP regulation and secure the development of M factors for more substances and for more substances to be included in annex VI to the CLP Regulation. SRI supports fully the response given by EuRIC.
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Meeting with Aurore Maillet (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

4 Mar 2015 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

4 Mar 2015 · Intro meeting