Rethink Plastic and Environmental Paper Network’s response to the consultation on a revised EU Bioeconomy Strategy

The Rethink Plastic Alliance and the Environmental Paper Network welcome the opportunity to
provide feedback on the development of a new EU Bioeconomy Strategy. We urge the
European Commission to ensure that the revised strategy actively supports a truly circular,
regenerative, and ecologically sound bioeconomy. This includes ensuring ambitious alignment
with European and global objectives on packaging, ecodesign for sustainable products, and
nature restoration. In particular, this new strategy must recognise the risks of unchecked
expansion of bio-based material production, addressing the full lifecycle impacts of bio-based
plastics and paper, and prioritising resource sufficiency, ecological resilience, and social equity
over simplistic assumptions of renewability or carbon neutrality.