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Plastic pellets, whether derived from virgin material, recycled sources or biomass, constitute the primary building blocks for the majority of plastic products. The European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on preventing pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution represents a necessary step towards addressing plastic pollution and the associated harms to human health and the environment. […]
Levels of packaging waste in Europe are at an all-time high. Over the last decade, its growthoutpaced the economy rising faster than the volume of traded goods. The latest Eurostat dataon packaging waste, published in October 2023, reaffirms this upward trajectory with a newrecord of 188.7 kg per capita in 2021 – a 6% increase […]
A new report by the Rethink Plastic Alliance, European Environmental Bureau, Zero Waste Europe, Fern and the Environmental Paper Network reveals the environmental harm caused by replacing single-use plastic with single-use paper packaging. The report clearly shows the need to move away from ever-polluting single-use packaging and towards well-designed reuse systems. The NGO coalition calls […]
Heavily cited studies which favour single-use over reuse often lack transparency and have implicit biases against reuse due to funders’ interests, cherrypicked scenarios and false assumptions, according to a new report by Reloop and Zero Waste Europe.
We, the signatories of this letter (civil society organisations and reuse businesses across Europe), are concerned that misinformation and intense lobbying from the single-use packaging industry and the take-away sector are undermining the need for reuse as a driver for waste prevention, resource conservation and climate protection in the
ackaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
The focus of decision-makers should remain firmly on the key objective of the PPWR,
which is reducing packaging waste and improving the environmental performance of this increasingly wasteful sector.
7 reasons why reusable take-away packaging is a sustainable alternative for climate protection and resource conservation.
The exponential expansion of the production of raw plastic materials since 2005 has resulted in increased waste generation and over 170 trillion plastic particles in the world’s oceans. In response, the European Union (EU) should take all necessary steps to regulate plastic pellets across the plastic supply chain and effectively reduce the amount of pellets that end up in the
environment.
The EU’s bold plan to quit the most harmful chemicals is a year old. We assess its effectiveness.
A joint report by ClientEarth and the European Environmental Bureau, 25 April 2023.