Report identifies challenges towards a plastics circular economy

The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identifying challenges and potential solutions to meeting the EU’s plans to have all plastic packaging recycled or reused by 2030.

SusChem’s report, Plastics strategic research and innovation agenda in a circular economy, was released in response to the European Commission’s Strategy for plastics in a circular economy. The EU uses around 50m t/y of plastic and there are 60,000 companies in the European plastics industry. In 2016, 27m t of plastic waste was collected of which 7.4m t was sent to landfill, 8.4m t was recycled, and 11.3m t were used for energy recovery, which shows the need for a plastics circular economy.

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