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Tag: Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

  • Unpacking EU packaging rules: The good, the bad, and the single use

    The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) provides a foundation for more sustainable packaging but leaves too much room for voluntary adoption. For a stronger commitment to reducing packaging waste, we need Member States to go beyond the minimum requirements of the regulation. It will be crucial to adopt ambitious secondary legislation and standards that will address sustainable waste management, helping the much-needed shift towards more sustainable packaging.

  • Analysis – EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)

    Rules governing the EU packaging sector will become more harmonised, but the regulation leaves a lot of room for Member States to grant derogations, (or not), and to adopt measures going further than the regulation. How national governments use this room for manoeuvre will determine if a reduction packaging waste is achieved. Learn more in our analysis.

  • ECOS Position paper – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste

    ECOS publishes a position paper on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation ahead of the negotiations in the European Parliament and Council, aiming to see the European proposal improved.

  • Reuse and recycle by default – New EU packaging rules must end single-use

    On 30 November, as part of its Circular Economy Action Plan, the European Commission will take a step towards improving the sustainability of packaging and wider product distribution systems – or not.

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