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The Uneven Playing Field: How Europe’s Waste Taxes Distort Recovery, Landfill and Trade A new RDF Industry Group report examining residual waste taxation across 38 European countries. Europe’s waste taxes differ sharply in their rates, design and application. These differences can create unequal competition between recovery facilities and weaken incentives to divert residual…

This note summarises the RDF Industry Group’s position on the potential expansion of emissions trading to waste incineration and related waste treatment routes. It draws on the Group’s EU ETS consultation response and includes aligned UK-specific points relevant to the planned inclusion of energy from waste in the UK ETS. For the section…

Briefing note on the RDF Industry Group response and government outcome Purpose of this note As an action from the RDF Industry Group Operations Working Group, this note has been prepared to provide a summary overview of the recent proposals to reform English Landfill Tax via consultation, the positions taken by the Group,…

A decade is a significant milestone in any journey. For the RDF Industry Group, it represents ten years of steadfast advocacy, pragmatic problem-solving, and a shared commitment to a better environmental outcome for Europe’s non-recyclable waste. It is with immense pride that we reflect on the path we have travelled and the landscape…

We are pleased to announce that for the reporting year 2024 our members were 99% compliant with industry standards, with no red breaches! Our annual Code of Practice (CoP) dashboard report takes information from our members’ individual annual CoP reports and summarises all reported regulatory breaches in relation to waste export from the…

We welcome the UK’s ambition to strengthen the ETS and its overall aim to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cost-effectively. The ETS will be a particularly important mechanism in achieving the UK’s legally binding pledge to reach net zero by 2050. Members of the Group are involved in the…

The Waste Derived Fuel supply chain plays an important role in helping to solve three major challenges the EU and wider Europe faces: reducing levels of methane and CO2 emissions to limit the rate of climate change; ensuring resources are used in a circular (rather than a linear) way, so their full value…

The Waste Derived Fuel supply chain plays an important role in helping to solve three major challenges the EU and wider Europe faces: reducing levels of methane and CO2 emissions to limit the rate of climate change; ensuring resources are used in a circular (rather than a linear) way, so their full value…