Have you heard the term bioeconomy? Do you know the European Commission plans to update its 2012 Bioeconomy Strategy? Do you think this strategy has been successful until now?

Croatia is a very big consumer of the cemetery candles. This became an environmental problem since there are no recycling facilities for candles and they are usually disposed on waste dumps.
I would like to know what is practice in other countries. I know that Slovenia has a regulation on cemetery candles and EPR system. But, what about implementation in practice and recycling rate?

Despite the single terminology and definitions in the Waste Framework Directive, the actual waste recycling processes differ from country to country. For example, the recycling of plastic bottles in one country means the stage when the new plastic bottles are pressed on the production line. In other countries plastic bottles are considered recycled once they enter the gate of recycling/waste management site.

Hungary is a supplier to West-European countries's economies. Untill Hungarian companies are not required by West-European companies to be circular, for them it is not worth to be circular. This means, Hungary alone cannot have a circular economy. How can this contradiction and challenge hampering Hungary's transition to circular economy be solved?

A Slovak foundry is interested in exchanging experience in the field of circular economy. Do you have any examples or ideas how other Danube region countries treat following waste code?: 100903 (furnace slag), 100906 (casting cores and moulds which have not undergone pouring other than those mentioned in 10 09 05), 100908 (casting cores and moulds which have undergone pouring other than those mentioned in 10 09 07), 100910 (flue-gas dust other than those mentioned in 10 09 09), 110502 (zinc ash).

Truely sustainable! Not green-washed :-)