CIRCULAR ECONOMY PACKAGE NEEDS STRONGER LEGISLATIVE BASE, SAY PLASTICS INDUSTRY EXPERTS
February 1st, 2018
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s ‘third circular economy package’ of pro-recycling reforms and regulations, proposed January 16 which contains an ambitious European Union (EU) plastics strategy, should be enshrined in hard law, with sector-wide targets, plastics industry experts have told Plastics News Europe.
“The strategy’s recycling targets [all plastic packaging must be reused or easily recycled by 2030] and requirement to have converted 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics into new products by 2025 are very ambitious and to reach them industry will ...
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