2 To test for intra-individual stability of phase timing from year to year, the Rayleigh test was used (implemented in R in the Circular Statistics package by Ulric Lund and Claudio Agostinelli, 2007; circular: R package version 0.3-8).
The circular economy package, which was tabled in July, includes an 80% recycling target for packaging by 2030 and a ban on sending recyclable materials to landfill by 2025.
Social costs of targets in circular economy package.
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Friends of the Earth resource use campaigner Richard Dyer said the circular economy package was right to include recycling targets, but it did not go far enough.
9.58am BST Welcome to the eco audit The European Commission will today release its circular economy package, which is expected to include a binding recycling target of 70%.
The EU legislative proposal, The Circular Economy Package, presented in July 2014, was withdrawn by the Juncker Commission earlier this year under the pretext of deregulation.
I remain optimistic that business-led innovation will continue and that the politicians through the circular economy package can find some practical ways to embed circular thinking into the structure and support of their economies.
In December last year, the European commission stepped back from its circular economy package, which had included a ban on sending recyclable materials to landfill by 2025 and a target for EU states to recycle 70% of municipal waste by 2030.
