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In this position paper, we discuss the opportunities to improve the guidance on the impact materiality assessment of the ESRS E5 draft, with recommendations, whilst addressing the definition of circular economy.
“A Just Transition to Reusable Packaging: Necessary conditions, benefits and best practice” looks beyond the environmental benefits of reuse and explores the potential socio-economic benefits, with a focus on the grocery retail and HoReCa (Hotel, Restaurant, Cafés) sectors.
The present study compares seven scenarios for the future of plastic packaging in the European
Union (EU) from a climate perspective, following the projected amounts of recycled plastics needed
by 2030.
This report seeks to provide a thorough analysis of where EU Member States stand in their transposition of the SUP Directive and of their level of ambition in achieving the objectives of the SUP Directive and in addressing plastic pollution.
While the EU has taken a first important step with the Single-Use Plastic Directive adopted in 2019, it now has the responsibility to tackle single use plastic packaging, and to involve different sectors, including the food service sector.
How can EU legislation tackle microplastics pollution? Read our position paper in which we urge the European Commission to consider effective measures to address this microplastics at source across all legislative proposals of the EU Green Deal.
The European Union (EU) is about to revise its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PWWD). This provides an opportunity to eliminate unnecessary packaging
and transition from single-use to reusable packaging, and hence significantly reduce resource use, waste and pollution. The fact that the current PPWD includes only
recycling targets creates an excessive focus on recycling, whereas upstream measures
should be given priority. Setting reuse targets in the PPWD is one of the tools the EU
can and should use to make reusable packaging the new norm.
Citizens, municipalities and businesses across Europe are calling for reusable packaging to be scaled up and for robust reuse systems to be put in place. Even though the concept of reuse is high on the public agenda, it is sometimes used interchangeably with other concepts such as recycling. Here’s your guide to understand what reuse is and what it is not!