Industry reacts to EU end-of-waste criteria proposal

Neel Madsen Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

16 September 2026


Seven European industry associations have issued a joint political response raising “serious concerns” about the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) proposal for EU-wide end-of-waste criteria for recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste.

Aggregates Europe, Concrete Europe, EAPA, FEAD, FIR, Recycling Europe and FIEC issued the response on 8 September, following the publication of the revised JRC proposal on 12 June 2026.

The proposal defines when recycled materials stop being legally classified as waste and become usable products.

As construction and demolition waste…

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