Recommendations 1.Set performance targets that respect the waste hierarchy and support closed-loop recycling instead of downcycling (e.g. polyester from recycled plastic bottles). Commissions proposal lacks prevention, collection, reuse and recycling targets, potentially compromising the waste hierarchy and undermining the impact of fibre-to-fibre recycling technologies.
CMF
Changing Markets Foundation
NGO · Netherlands · EU Transparency Register 482789528099-85
6
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
6
legislative files
of 665 tracked
3
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,800 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1107 non-governmental organisations on this site, they rank #225 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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Declares membership of
- Changing Markets is a member of the following:
- Eating Better: http://www.eating-better.org
- EEB: https://eeb.org
- Food and Climate Action Group: https://www.foodandclimateaction.org/
- Climate Action Against Disinformation: https://caad.info/
- Break Free From Plastic: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/
- EU Parliament's Sustainable Textile Working Group
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 15 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Non-governmental organisations
- Registered as
- Stichting Changing Markets
- Head office
- Utrecht, Netherlands
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 15 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Changing Markets Foundation filed 6 positions between 4 Jun 2018 and 16 Sept 2025, across 6 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 3 times.
2018 · 1 filed2021 · 2 filed2022 · 1 filed2023 · 1 filed2025 · 1 filed
What they argued
Ensuring the EUs 2040 Climate Target has a strong and legally binding target is essential to ensure climate goals are achieved and communities in the EU are protected from further global heating and its impacts on health, food security, and economic risk.
The Changing Markets Foundation welcomes that the Commission has committed to ban the most hazardous chemicals from consumer products, including FCM, and has committed to revising the FCM legislation. We believe this is an important opportunity to establish safer and more sustainable food packaging as part of achieving a toxic-free circular economy.
Our research into the reliance of the fashion industry on fossil-fuel derived, or plastic, synthetic fibres, has been published in several reports in 2021 and is part of an ongoing campaign. As part of this research, we reached out to 46 different global fashion brands asking them to disclose key information on their use of synthetic fibres - including any policies they have for reducing microfibre shedding from…
The objective of Article 9 SUPD is the seperate collection of plastic bottles in order to ensure that they don’t end up littered in the environment and the evidence shows that the only way to achieve viable and long-term 90% separate collection rates is through mandatory Deposit Return Systems.
We agree with the feedback by the European Environmental Bureau, which they have handed it (EEB proposals for a more coherent EU Product Policy Framework contributing to the Circular Economy). We have a few additions as that we have encountered as part of our campaigns, notably our campaign to increase circularity of the carpet sector.
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