https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/ fr SPIP - www.spip.net https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH54/logo-reuse-rvb-horizontal-3c454.png?1742892281 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/ 54 144 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visit-reuse-economy-expo/article/visit https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visit-reuse-economy-expo/article/visit 2026-07-01T12:28:30Z text/html en Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visit-reuse-economy-expo/" rel="directory">Visit REuse Economy Expo</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH100/img_4436_2400-10-f20af.jpg?1782929184' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='100' alt="" /> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visiter/article/nouvel-article-no-2208 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visiter/article/nouvel-article-no-2208 2026-06-30T15:19:49Z text/html fr Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/visiter/" rel="directory">Visiter REuse Economy Expo</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH100/img_4436_2400-6-6c0ad.jpg?1782929184' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='100' alt="" /> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/the-reuse-economy-decoded-by-our-experts/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now-2200 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/the-reuse-economy-decoded-by-our-experts/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now-2200 2026-06-10T08:48:02Z text/html en Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra <p>The European Union now has an unprecedented regulatory toolkit to accelerate the transition toward a more circular economy: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Right to Repair, the Batteries Regulation, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, and more. Never before have objectives related to reuse, repair, and extending product lifespans been so clearly embedded in European law. Yet one reality remains: (…)</p> - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/the-reuse-economy-decoded-by-our-experts/" rel="directory">The reuse economy decoded by our experts</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH86/tribune_les_echos_solutions_-2-99e8f.jpg?1781081773' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='86' alt="" /> <div class='rss_texte'><p><i>The European Union now has an unprecedented regulatory toolkit to accelerate the transition toward a more circular economy: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Right to Repair, the Batteries Regulation, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, and more. Never before have objectives related to reuse, repair, and extending product lifespans been so clearly embedded in European law. Yet one reality remains: ambitious rules alone do not guarantee effective outcomes. Without harmonization, coordination, monitoring, and consistent enforcement across Member States, the Reuse Economy risks remaining fragmented, costly, and unable to reach its full industrial potential.</i></p> <p>The Reuse Economy can only function sustainably within a framework of trust. Companies investing in washing facilities, collection systems, repair operations, or reverse logistics infrastructure need regulatory certainty. They must be able to operate within a coherent European market governed by comparable rules across countries. Today, this is still not the case. Methodologies for calculating reuse rates differ, monitoring systems vary in effectiveness, administrative capacities are uneven, and enforcement remains limited in some cases. This fragmentation creates economic uncertainty, discouraging investment and slowing the scaling-up of reuse solutions.</p> <h3 class="spip">Harmonizing Rules and Coordinating Stakeholders: Two Key Levers for Accelerating Reuse</h3> <p>The challenge is now less about creating new regulations and more about making existing ones operational. Europe must transform its regulatory framework into a true <strong>engine for action, trust, and investment</strong>.</p> <p>The first priority is the harmonization of methodologies and indicators. It is impossible to manage a reuse economy effectively without a common language. Concepts such as return rates, reuse cycles, preparation for reuse, and EPR system performance must be defined and measured consistently across Europe. Without this, comparisons between countries become impossible and targets lose credibility. This harmonization process has already begun through the PPWR, which introduces common requirements for traceability, reporting, and data exchange for packaging reuse and refill systems. It must also extend to the data contained in the Digital Product Passport (DPP), ensuring interoperability between digital systems and enabling genuine European-wide traceability.</p> <p>The second priority is coordination. Reuse involves a wide range of stakeholders: manufacturers, retailers, reuse operators, local authorities, EPR organizations, logistics providers, social economy actors, and public authorities. Too often, each develops its own tools, standards, and infrastructure. This siloed approach prevents the industrialization of the sector. By contrast, shared systems and interoperability reduce costs and create economies of scale beyond national borders.</p> <p>The example of the European standardized pallet system (EPAL) demonstrates that success largely depends on common formats, harmonized rules, and shared infrastructure. This model should inspire packaging reuse systems as well as other sectors. Stronger European coordination is essential to avoid the proliferation of incompatible systems. A timely and highly relevant example is the **Interloop** project, partly funded through the European INTERREG NWE program, which aims to develop reusable and interoperable primary glass packaging systems initially across France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, before expanding at the European level.</p> <h3 class="spip">Rules Must Be Enforced, Not Just Adopted</h3> <p>However, harmonization and coordination alone are not enough. Rules must also be enforced credibly. Today, some European obligations remain insufficiently monitored. In several Member States, reuse targets are not subject to robust tracking, and on-the-ground inspections remain limited. This creates a major risk: companies that invest seriously in reuse may find themselves disadvantaged compared to actors that do not genuinely comply with the rules.</p> <p>Europe must therefore strengthen its monitoring and oversight mechanisms. This should include:</p> <ul class="spip" role="list"><li> Regular audits;</li><li> Common reporting methodologies;</li><li> Graduated sanction mechanisms;</li><li> Greater transparency regarding national performance.</li></ul> <p>One essential tool would be the creation of an annual <strong>European Reuse Economy Scoreboard</strong>, publishing comparable indicators by country and sector. Such transparency would generate a dynamic similar to that already observed with European climate indicators: no Member State wants to be seen as falling behind.</p> <p>Monitoring is also strategically important in combating greenwashing. In the field of reuse, unverified claims can quickly undermine consumer and investor confidence. Common European standards, harmonized audit protocols, and credible certification systems are therefore essential to secure the market.</p> <p>This requirement for oversight and transparency also applies to EPR systems. Historically designed around waste management and recycling, EPR schemes and deposit-return systems must now evolve toward a prevention- and reuse-oriented approach. A portion of producer contributions should be redirected toward financing washing, reuse, repair, and the associated infrastructure. However, this evolution can only succeed if governance and monitoring rules are harmonized across Europe.</p> <p>Ultimately, the real issue is the economic credibility of reuse. Companies will invest massively in the Reuse Economy only if they are confident that the rules will be stable, comparable, and effectively enforced. Ambitious but poorly enforced regulation generates uncertainty; harmonized and credible regulation creates a market.</p> <p>The European Union has already achieved similar transformations in other industrial sectors through common standards and a well-structured single market. The Reuse Economy can become the next major pillar of European industrial sovereignty—but only if harmonization, coordination, and enforcement are elevated to political priorities.</p> <p>Because the Reuse Economy is no longer a marginal or experimental topic. It is gradually becoming a strategic industrial infrastructure capable of reducing dependence on virgin resources, strengthening the resilience of value chains, and creating local, non-relocatable jobs. Europe now has the rules. The challenge of the coming years will be to make them truly operational, recognizing that the effectiveness of the law is a prerequisite for market credibility.</p></div> <div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/expert-news/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now-2206?var_mode=calcul" class="spip_out">https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/exp...</a></div> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/expert-news/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now-2206 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/expert-news/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now-2206 2026-06-10T08:48:02Z text/html en Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra <p>The European Union now has an unprecedented regulatory toolkit to accelerate the transition toward a more circular economy: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Right to Repair, the Batteries Regulation, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, and more. Never before have objectives related to reuse, repair, and extending product lifespans been so clearly embedded in European law. Yet one reality remains: (…)</p> - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/expert-news/" rel="directory">Expert news</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH86/tribune_les_echos_solutions_-2-2-23b92.jpg?1782390368' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='86' alt="" /> <div class='rss_texte'><p><i>The European Union now has an unprecedented regulatory toolkit to accelerate the transition toward a more circular economy: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Right to Repair, the Batteries Regulation, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, and more. Never before have objectives related to reuse, repair, and extending product lifespans been so clearly embedded in European law. Yet one reality remains: ambitious rules alone do not guarantee effective outcomes. Without harmonization, coordination, monitoring, and consistent enforcement across Member States, the Reuse Economy risks remaining fragmented, costly, and unable to reach its full industrial potential.</i></p> <p>The Reuse Economy can only function sustainably within a framework of trust. Companies investing in washing facilities, collection systems, repair operations, or reverse logistics infrastructure need regulatory certainty. They must be able to operate within a coherent European market governed by comparable rules across countries. Today, this is still not the case. Methodologies for calculating reuse rates differ, monitoring systems vary in effectiveness, administrative capacities are uneven, and enforcement remains limited in some cases. This fragmentation creates economic uncertainty, discouraging investment and slowing the scaling-up of reuse solutions.</p> <h3 class="spip">Harmonizing Rules and Coordinating Stakeholders: Two Key Levers for Accelerating Reuse</h3> <p>The challenge is now less about creating new regulations and more about making existing ones operational. Europe must transform its regulatory framework into a true <strong>engine for action, trust, and investment</strong>.</p> <p>The first priority is the harmonization of methodologies and indicators. It is impossible to manage a reuse economy effectively without a common language. Concepts such as return rates, reuse cycles, preparation for reuse, and EPR system performance must be defined and measured consistently across Europe. Without this, comparisons between countries become impossible and targets lose credibility. This harmonization process has already begun through the PPWR, which introduces common requirements for traceability, reporting, and data exchange for packaging reuse and refill systems. It must also extend to the data contained in the Digital Product Passport (DPP), ensuring interoperability between digital systems and enabling genuine European-wide traceability.</p> <p>The second priority is coordination. Reuse involves a wide range of stakeholders: manufacturers, retailers, reuse operators, local authorities, EPR organizations, logistics providers, social economy actors, and public authorities. Too often, each develops its own tools, standards, and infrastructure. This siloed approach prevents the industrialization of the sector. By contrast, shared systems and interoperability reduce costs and create economies of scale beyond national borders.</p> <p>The example of the European standardized pallet system (EPAL) demonstrates that success largely depends on common formats, harmonized rules, and shared infrastructure. This model should inspire packaging reuse systems as well as other sectors. Stronger European coordination is essential to avoid the proliferation of incompatible systems. A timely and highly relevant example is the **Interloop** project, partly funded through the European INTERREG NWE program, which aims to develop reusable and interoperable primary glass packaging systems initially across France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, before expanding at the European level.</p> <h3 class="spip">Rules Must Be Enforced, Not Just Adopted</h3> <p>However, harmonization and coordination alone are not enough. Rules must also be enforced credibly. Today, some European obligations remain insufficiently monitored. In several Member States, reuse targets are not subject to robust tracking, and on-the-ground inspections remain limited. This creates a major risk: companies that invest seriously in reuse may find themselves disadvantaged compared to actors that do not genuinely comply with the rules.</p> <p>Europe must therefore strengthen its monitoring and oversight mechanisms. This should include:</p> <ul class="spip" role="list"><li> Regular audits;</li><li> Common reporting methodologies;</li><li> Graduated sanction mechanisms;</li><li> Greater transparency regarding national performance.</li></ul> <p>One essential tool would be the creation of an annual <strong>European Reuse Economy Scoreboard</strong>, publishing comparable indicators by country and sector. Such transparency would generate a dynamic similar to that already observed with European climate indicators: no Member State wants to be seen as falling behind.</p> <p>Monitoring is also strategically important in combating greenwashing. In the field of reuse, unverified claims can quickly undermine consumer and investor confidence. Common European standards, harmonized audit protocols, and credible certification systems are therefore essential to secure the market.</p> <p>This requirement for oversight and transparency also applies to EPR systems. Historically designed around waste management and recycling, EPR schemes and deposit-return systems must now evolve toward a prevention- and reuse-oriented approach. A portion of producer contributions should be redirected toward financing washing, reuse, repair, and the associated infrastructure. However, this evolution can only succeed if governance and monitoring rules are harmonized across Europe.</p> <p>Ultimately, the real issue is the economic credibility of reuse. Companies will invest massively in the Reuse Economy only if they are confident that the rules will be stable, comparable, and effectively enforced. Ambitious but poorly enforced regulation generates uncertainty; harmonized and credible regulation creates a market.</p> <p>The European Union has already achieved similar transformations in other industrial sectors through common standards and a well-structured single market. The Reuse Economy can become the next major pillar of European industrial sovereignty—but only if harmonization, coordination, and enforcement are elevated to political priorities.</p> <p>Because the Reuse Economy is no longer a marginal or experimental topic. It is gradually becoming a strategic industrial infrastructure capable of reducing dependence on virgin resources, strengthening the resilience of value chains, and creating local, non-relocatable jobs. Europe now has the rules. The challenge of the coming years will be to make them truly operational, recognizing that the effectiveness of the law is a prerequisite for market credibility.</p></div> <div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/expert-news/article/the-real-challenge-of-reuse-in-europe-begins-now?var_mode=calcul" class="spip_out">https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/exp...</a></div> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/accueil/la-reuse-economy-decryptee-par-nos-experts/article/le-vrai-defi-du-reemploi-en-europe-commence-maintenant https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/accueil/la-reuse-economy-decryptee-par-nos-experts/article/le-vrai-defi-du-reemploi-en-europe-commence-maintenant 2026-06-10T08:46:37Z text/html fr Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra <p>L'Union européenne dispose aujourd'hui d'un arsenal réglementaire inédit pour accélérer la transition vers une économie plus circulaire : règlement emballages (PPWR), règlement ecodesign (ESPR), droit à la réparation, règlement batteries, responsabilité élargie des producteurs (REP), etc. Jamais les objectifs en matière de réemploi, de réparation et d'allongement de la durée d'usage n'ont été aussi clairement inscrits dans le droit européen. Pourtant, une réalité demeure : l'existence de (…)</p> - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/accueil/la-reuse-economy-decryptee-par-nos-experts/" rel="directory">La Reuse Economy décryptée par nos experts</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH86/tribune_les_echos_solutions_-2f27e.jpg?1781081773' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='86' alt="" /> <div class='rss_texte'><p>L'Union européenne dispose aujourd'hui d'un arsenal réglementaire inédit pour accélérer la transition vers une économie plus circulaire : règlement emballages (PPWR), règlement ecodesign (ESPR), droit à la réparation, règlement batteries, responsabilité élargie des producteurs (REP), etc. Jamais les objectifs en matière de réemploi, de réparation et d'allongement de la durée d'usage n'ont été aussi clairement inscrits dans le droit européen. Pourtant, une réalité demeure : l'existence de règles ambitieuses ne garantit pas leur efficacité. Sans harmonisation, coordination, contrôle et application cohérente dans les États membres, la Reuse Economy risque de rester fragmentée, coûteuse et incapable d'atteindre son potentiel industriel.</p></div> <div class="hyperlien">Voir en ligne : <a href="https://solutions.lesechos.fr/business/actu-entreprise/le-vrai-defi-du-reemploi-en-europe-commence-maintenant/" class="spip_out">https://solutions.lesechos.fr/busin...</a></div> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/toutes-les-tendances-et-innovations-d-un-secteur-d-avenir/article/rendez-vous-en-mai-2027-pour-la-prochaine-edition https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/toutes-les-tendances-et-innovations-d-un-secteur-d-avenir/article/rendez-vous-en-mai-2027-pour-la-prochaine-edition 2026-06-08T13:53:48Z text/html en Cecilia Bourgeois, Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra, thomas@atoom.fr - <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/en/toutes-les-tendances-et-innovations-d-un-secteur-d-avenir/" rel="directory">REinventing the economy</a> <img src='https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/local/cache-vignettes/L150xH100/img_4436_2400-7-2-8b310.jpg?1782907149' class='spip_logo spip_logo_right' width='150' height='100' alt="" /> <div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/contact-us" class="spip_out">Contact Us</a></div> https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/accueil/le-premier-salon-dedie-aux-professionnels-du-vrac-et-du-reemploi/article/revivez-les-temps-forts-de-l-edition-2026-2209 https://reuseeconomyexpo.com/accueil/le-premier-salon-dedie-aux-professionnels-du-vrac-et-du-reemploi/article/revivez-les-temps-forts-de-l-edition-2026-2209 2026-06-08T13:53:48Z text/html fr Cecilia Bourgeois, Marie-Lou Dupont Kootstra, thomas@atoom.fr - 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