26. Oct 2016
The European plastics industry is pleased to announce the creation of a value chain collaboration to drive Europe’s Polyolefins-based packaging recycling efforts.
Today, three plastics industry organisations have launched a new Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP) through which the industry calls on all actors to join them in driving towards this goal and play their part.
The plastics industry recognises that a business as usual approach will not enable the proposed challenging target for 55% plastic packaging “preparing for re-use and recycling” target by 2025, as outlined in the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package. In the drive to create a more circular economy, fresh approaches and new thinking are required. Hence, this newly formed platform will be working for a 5 to 10-year horizon based on effective, science-based solutions.
The platform will create a multi-stakeholder group that will seek to identify the barriers and opportunities to increase Europe’s recycling and work towards ensuring the supply of high quality recycled plastics for the European market. Correspondingly, this will drive economic growth and the creation of new jobs as Europe moves towards a more circular economy.
Innovation is at the heart of this initiative and will require both public and private support to be successful. The following priority areas of work have been identified:
The European plastics industry is an integral part of the manufacturing in Europe, with over 62,000 companies providing more than 1.4 million jobs and annually contributing 26 billion euros to public finances.
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