{"id":101445,"date":"2020-04-08T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?post_type=library&#038;p=101445"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:13:02","slug":"waste-shipment-regulation-wsr-feedback-on-the-inception-impact-assessment","status":"publish","type":"library","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/library\/waste-shipment-regulation-wsr-feedback-on-the-inception-impact-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR): Feedback on the inception impact assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EEB\u00a0 welcomes the inception impact assessment (IIA) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/7567584-Waste-shipments-revision-of-EU-rules-\">Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR)<\/a> stressing the intention to stop exporting waste outside the EU and revisit existing rules.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IIA, \u201cInternational trade in waste has increased considerably. In 2016, four times more waste were traded across international borders than in 1992 and this waste had a value of around 100 billion euro. In 2016, export of waste from the EU to third countries outside the EU amounted to around 40 million tonnes, around 20% of the global export of waste. At the same time, approximately 13 million tonnes of waste were imported into the EU.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":101078,"template":"","library_category":[422,414,424],"library_tags":[456],"class_list":["post-101445","library","type-library","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_category-circular-economy","library_category-resource-efficiency","library_category-waste-and-recycling","library_tags-position"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library\/101445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_category?post=101445"},{"taxonomy":"library_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_tags?post=101445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}