ECOS feedback – The implementing decision of the Single-Use Plastic Directive (SUPD) defining the methodology for recycled content
ECOS sends its response to the European consultation on the implementing decision of the Single-Use Plastic Directive (SUPD) defining the methodology for recycled content. Since the adopted methodology will be the first of this type, it will create a precedent for the upcoming legislative pieces.
ECOS welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the European Commission on the implementing decision laying down common rules for calculating, verifying and reporting on recycled plastic content in single-use plastic beverage bottles. While acknowledging that the scope of this implementing decision is limited to beverage bottles in the context of the implementation of the SUPD, we are aware that methodologies to set calculation and verification rules for recycled content in other products will be coming up soon and that this decision will set a precedent for any upcoming legal acts on recycled content.
The rules in the present act must establish a methodology in line with the EU circular economy and the climate agenda, in support of a reduction of virgin plastic production, while respecting the level playing field between recycling technologies.
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