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News

EU agrees on new landmark plastic pellet regulation to reduce microplastic pollution, but remaining loopholes and delays likely to undermine overall impact

New report unwraps solutions for EU countries to end the packaging waste crisis

Rethink Plastic alliance assesses Single-Use Plastics Directive implementation ahead of Commission evaluation

Regulation on Plastic Pellet pollution: Council of the EU adopts its General Approach

Open Letter to the new College of Commissioners

Plastic production decline in Europe exposes the urgent need to tackle global overproduction in Plastics Treaty

“No more lies!” – NGOs use Pinocchio figure to expose big polluters reporting false data

EU has “legal duty” to ban PVC, NGOs tell European Commission

European Parliament votes to ‘greenwash’ recycled content in latest resolution on Single-Use Plastic Directive accounting method, say environmental NGOs