Reloop’s short guide summarising all the key details and provisions on the European Commission’s revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
Subject: Packaging
Reloop built a coalition in EU which supports the overall direction and ambition of the Commission’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal.
This is an opportunity to significantly reduce the demand for virgin resources in a meaningful way.
Article written for Common Wealth Beacon, April 2022, Elizabeth Balkan and Kirstie Pecci.
Efforts to reduce marine litter and eliminate plastic waste (particularly the single-use kind) were some of the key themes of 2018, with European Union Parliament and Council ending the year with a provisional agreement to phase out problematic single-use plastic (SUP) items by 2021
Since the European Commission unveiled its Circular Economy (CE) package last December, there has been significant discussion around the proposed legislation. And perhaps the most vexed topic to date has been how best to calculate recycling rates in the EU and whether to include reuse activities in that determination.