Circular or vicious loops? : gauging the persistence of EU waste law against the circular economy transition

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dc.contributor.authorTSIATSIANIS, Dimitrios
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-23T08:07:07Z
dc.date.available2025-06-23T08:07:07Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 20 June 2025
dc.description.abstractAgainst unsustainable patterns of resource consumption, EU waste law has committed to a Circular Economy (CE) transition. Although the CE model promotes material circulation through waste prevention and recovery, it is impeded if product rules do not anticipate waste-related risks of non-virgin materials for humans and the environment. Therefore, institutional actors of EU waste law shall complement product law by advancing knowledge about the chemical substances of non-virgin materials, or else adopt a substance-based approach. Through a Historical Institutionalism (HI) lens, the article gauges the implications of older and persistent institutional forces against the substance-based approach, in the field of by-product rules. More specifically, the Commission and the EU judiciary have persistently exercised their agency to maintain the prominence of an action-based approach, where the safety of by-products is contingent on human actions assigning value to them. This persistent approach obstructs safe waste prevention as the highest CE pillar.
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of environmental law, 2025, Art. eqaf016, OnlineFirst
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jel/eqaf016
dc.identifier.issn0952-8873
dc.identifier.issn1464-374X
dc.identifier.othereqaf016
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92851
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of environmental law
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.subjectCE transition
dc.subjectEU waste law
dc.subjectBy-products
dc.subjectHistorical institutionalism
dc.titleCircular or vicious loops? : gauging the persistence of EU waste law against the circular economy transition
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