PhD seminar – Rémi GIRARD

Seminars

Salle du Conseil R06, Maison de la Recherche, 23-25 rue Baron Louis, Nancy

The 2025/05/22

From 11:00am to 12:15pm

Event details :

Remi Girard will present his paper entitled: “Does recycling fuel the energy transition ? Exploring the impacts of wastes recycling on the energy efficiency of EU members”.

Abstract: Energy efficiency is an important feature of the energy transition. The European Union aims to further improve its energy efficiency by 11.7% at horizon 2030. Concurrently, The EU is promoting recycling by targeting a 60% rate of recycling for municipal solid waste. However, the interplay between these two factors remains to be fully elucidated. The central question guiding this study is whether recycling contributes to enhanced energy efficiency and whether its benefits are limited to specific waste categories. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between energy efficiency and recycling. Using a panel for the 28 countries of the EU spanning from 2004 to 2018, we show that (i) recycling decreases the energy efficiency in the EU and that (ii) Plastics is the only materials that actually increase the energy efficiency.

His paper will be commented by Lesly Cassin (Senior Lecturer, University of Lorraine) and Arthur Mely (PhD student, BETA, UL).

The seminar is open to all BETA members.