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Reduce waste generation and increase the effectiveness of extended producer responsibility mechanisms
Measures
55. With a view to achieving a circular economy and sustainable resource management, transforming the distribution sector and service provision to citizens and businesses to reduce waste production.
With reference to the measure present in the RWMP and the General Policy Declaration, developing the new sustainable resource management economy, which aims to transform the distribution sector and long-term services to citizens and businesses towards a more circular approach in which less waste is produced.
56. Achieving an overall reduction in packaging for products intended for consumers, shops and industrial companies.
Generally reducing packaging through the Interregional Cooperation Agreements (ACIs) and the Fost Plus and VALIPAC approval schemes.
57. Improving the access of social and circular businesses to waste resources so that they can re-use them more effectively.
Ensuring better use of waste resources in the Brussels-Capital Region by social and/or circular businesses through increased access to potentially reusable waste, for example through EPR and Bruxelles-Propreté.
58. Imposing a legal requirement on producers (in particular actors in the packaging and the tobacco and cigarette industries) to bear the costs relating to the overall management of urban cleanliness, by reinforcing extended producer responsibility.
Introducing legislation via an Interregional Cooperation Agreement (ACI) so that producers bear the costs relating to the overall management of urban cleanliness, in particular actors in the packaging and the tobacco and cigarette industries, through the creation of extended responsibility for producers of single-use plastics (REP SUP).
59. Fully implementing the extended producer responsibility framework and extending it to new flows.
Within the context of the Interregional Cooperation Agreements, the Waste Ordinance and Brudalex, fully implementing the reformed Extended Producer Responsibility framework and extending it to new flows.