22/05/2018 (Agence Europe) – The revised waste directives, a key legislative instrument of the EU action plan on the circular economy, were formally adopted, without debate, by the Council of Ministers of the EU on Tuesday 22 May (see EUROPE 12004). They establish new rules for waste management and set much more ambitious binding targets for the re-use and recycling of municipal waste (55% by 2025, 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035), and for levels of recycling of packaging and various materials. They put a 10% cap on the disposal of municipal waste in landfill sites and set food waste reduction targets of 30% by 2025 and 50% by 2030. Separate collections for dangerous household waste will become compulsory from 2022, for bio-waste from 2023 and for textiles from 2025. (AN)