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Resource efficiency: towards a circular economy

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Industry players complain that the EU’s overregulated raw materials market makes their prices uncompetitive in the global economy.

The European Commissions' promising eco-design directive is struggling to gain traction because of staff shortages, undermining efforts to set energy-efficiency standards for products, said one expert who monitors the legislation.

Many EU member states are going to miss targets for collecting a quarter of all waste batteries by 2012 and 45% of them by 2016, EurActiv has learned.

European steelmakers warn they have reached the limits of how much recycled metal can feed their mills as competition for scrap is driving exports to emerging Asian economies. EurActiv reports from ArcelorMittal's factory in Ghent, Belgium.

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Edouard Toulouse Eco-design specialist, European Environmental Citizens Organisation for Standardisation

Energy expert: Not enough staff for eco-design directive

Sybolt Brouwer General Manager, Umicore battery recycling plant

Umicore chief: Recycling comes at a cost

Opinion & Analysis

Resource efficiency: different sectors need different maps?

Jori Ringman-Beck, Secretay, European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC)

Resource-efficiency: Europe can set a global example

Bas de Leeuw, Director, World Resources Forum

Europe should embrace 'clean revolution'

Steve Howard, Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA

Europe, China and the quest for rare earths

Reinhard Bütikofer, MEP, Greens/EFA Group

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