European plastic recycling targets at risk due to high imports and ...

Plastics Recyclers Europe warns that the European plastics industry could be threatened by low demand for recyclate produced in the EU and ...

Low demand and high imports endanger the European plastics ...

Plastics recycling market in Europe has been heavily destabilised throughout 2023. Since the beginning of the year, prices of recyclates have decreased by up ...

Plastic waste and recycling in the EU: facts and figures | Topics

It includes a 25% target for recycled content in plastic bottles by 2025 and 30% by 2030. Parliament and the Council reached a deal and MEPs ...

European plastic recycling industry growth threatened by shrinking ...

Latest figures show that the total European installed plastics recycling capacity[1] stands at 12.5 million tonnes in 2022. Due to heavy ...

EU recycled content targets at risk from PET imports, cautions ...

A major increase in PET imports threatens the EU's capability of improving plastic waste management and its competitiveness in the industry, ...

Urgent actions required to protect the European recycling industry ...

from unfair competition linked to massive imports of plastics ... - Minimum recycled content targets for plastic packaging put on the market in ...

Act now to save European plastics recycling plants

Low demand and high imports endanger Europe's plastics recycling industry, sector leaders are warning. They say that unless urgent measures ...

Plastics Recycling Europe calls for 'urgent measures' to protect ...

Low demand and high imports are a threat to the European plastics recycling industry, Plastics Recycling Europe said in an Oct. 12 ...

Plastics recycling in Europe: obstacles and options (Signal)

Increasing plastic recycling would help reduce climate consequences and other environmental impacts. Plastic recycling rates are relatively low ...

Plastics Recycling Europe calls for enforcement mechanisms to ...

Low demand and high imports continue to endanger the European plastics recycling industry, Plastics Recycling Europe (PRE) said in a statement today.

Europe risks falling short of its plastics recycling targets

Due to the lack of a level-playing field, PET imports to the EU have increased by 20% from June 2022 to June 2023* resulting in low demand for EU recycled PET.

Urgent actions required to protect the European recycling industry ...

The uncontrolled increase of imports of cheap plastics, both virgin and plastics labelled as recycled, is severely damaging plastics ...

The path to circularity in Europe: recognising the value of waste - ICIS

EU targets for recycling and recycled content have been fundamental in driving change. The EU has set a target for 50% of plastic packaging to be recycled by ...

PPWR trilogues must bring solutions to soaring recycled plastic ...

Allowing the use of post-consumer plastics from outside the EU to meet recycled content targets, together with a lack of control and ...

green-deal-plastic-recycling.pdf - KPMG International

In order to reach the higher recycling targets, the EU also aims to boost ... EU regulations enforce more recycling of plastic waste and higher usage of recycled ...

Opinion: EU needs firm action to meet recycling targets

Prices of recycled plastics decreased by up to 50%, while imports of non-EU recycled content significantly increased. In 2023, the market ...

Don't trash European recycling - POLITICO.eu

Step change in EU plastic recycling rates is possible — but only if the European Commission's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation ...

Plastic waste and recycling in the EU: facts and figures - EU Monitor

This poses the risk of increased incineration and landfilling of plastic waste in Europe. Meanwhile, the EU is trying to find circular and ...

Our industry's roadmap for plastics in Europe to be circular and have ...

With high expected growth rates, the analytical model projects that chemical recycling capacity could double each decade starting in 2030 ...

Global plastic waste recycling and extended producer responsibility ...

Recently (Dec 2022), the European Commission (EC) estimates a 46% increase in plastic packaging by 2030 if action is not taken instantly. The ...