A Scientific Assessment of the JRC Study on European Sustainability Criteria for Plastics Recycling Technologies
The aim of this report is to allow for a better understanding of the full environmental impacts of different plastic recycling technologies.
Despite some shortcomings, exemptions and loopholes, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation establishes a number of key requirements, notably on waste prevention, reuse and recyclability. It also provides many tools that governments at the national, regional and local levels can leverage to reduce packaging waste.
Dear Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy Jessika Roswall,
We, the undersigned organisations, urge you to include the plastics and polymer sector in the forthcoming first Working Plan under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). Plastic in products has an outsized impact on human health and the environment and was included in the JRC’s shortlist for intermediate products. Yet the final text of the ESPR does not list plastics and polymers as one of the suggested sectors for intermediate product priorities.