Directive (EU) 2025/1892
Directive (EU) 2025/1892 significantly revises the Waste Framework Directive to strengthen EU waste prevention and circular economy objectives. It introduces harmonised extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes for textiles, ensuring consistent obligations across Member States and improving accountability for producers.
The directive sets ambitious food waste reduction targets: a 10 % reduction in processing and manufacturing and a 30 % per capita reduction in retail and households by 2030, aligning with EU sustainability goals. These targets aim to tackle one of the largest sources of resource inefficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. It also mandates robust measurement and reporting obligations to enhance transparency and comparability of data. Definitions for textiles fit for reuse are clarified to support second-hand markets and reduce waste.
Additionally, the Commission gains powers to adopt delegated and implementing acts, enabling swift adaptation to emerging challenges and technological developments. These measures aim to boost reuse, recycling, and material loop closure, reducing resource dependency and supporting climate neutrality. By integrating stricter targets and harmonised systems, the directive reinforces the EU’s commitment to waste prevention, resource efficiency, and circular economy principle.
Relevance to bio-waste and/or circular bioeconomy:
The directive strengthens circular economy principles by introducing national food waste reduction targets: 10 % in processing and manufacturing and 30 % per capita in retail and households by 2030. Combined with harmonised EPR schemes for textiles, these measures promote resource efficiency, waste valorisation, and sustainable material loops, reducing landfill disposal and supporting EU climate objectives.
EU (EEA relevance)
Full title: Directive (EU) 2025/1892 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 September 2025 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (Text with EEA relevance)
Publication date: 2025
Instrument type: Directive
Binding for EU MS: Yes
Keywords: waste prevention, food waste, reduction targets, reuse, separate collection, reporting, delegated acts, measurement methodology, extended producer responsibility, textile waste