Code of Practice Report 2024
We are pleased to announce that for the reporting year 2024 our members were 100% compliant with industry standards, with no amber or 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…
UK ETS Consultation Response
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…
Executive Summary: The Role of Waste Derived Fuel in the EU’s Energy and Resources Transition
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 Role of Waste Derived Fuel in the EU’s Energy and Resources Transition
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…
POPs Consultation Response
In response to DEFRA\’s consultation proposing amendments the UK\’s Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulations, the RDF Industry Group wrote to DEFRA, highlighting our concerns about the commercial and/or technical feasibility of testing for the proposed POPs concentration limits, the infrastructure and sorting capacity required, and potential supply chain disruption. The POPs consultation, in…
Code of Practice Report 2022
To ensure the high standards of the Code of Practice (CoP) are upheld, all Group members and signatories are required to report their compliance against relevant CoP stages to the secretariat on an annual basis. The secretariat has summarised this information into the below 2022 CoP Dashboard Report. The report sets out anonymised…
The Future of RDF Export Market in Europe
In autumn 2022 the secretariat published a report exploring the future of the RDF export market in Europe. The report was undertaken as the second phase in a research series – the first phase (released in November 2021) analysed new and emerging waste-derived fuel (WDF) markets in Europe in response to a UN…
Report: CO2 Reduction Potential in European Waste Management
Study Partners and Project Team: Work conducted jointly by research organisations Prognos and CE Delft, on behalf of the following European Waste Management Associations: FEAD, CEWEP, the RDF Industry Group, and the Dutch Waste Management Association. Objective: This study, building on a previous study conducted by Prognos in 2008, highlights the important contributions…