On 18 December, the Environment Council voted on a General Approach on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) proposal. “After the vote in the European Parliament, we are glad to see the file making concrete progress also in the Council,” states Guido Aufdemkamp, Executive Director of Flexible Packaging Europe.
Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), representing flexible packaging suppliers across materials, welcomes the improvements on deadlines for recyclability requirements, which broadly align with the European Parliament’s proposed amendments. It is also encouraging that the Council recognises that packaging complying with Design for Recycling must be collected for recycling by Member States and that incineration and landfill of such packaging shall not be allowed. Industry can recycle only if packaging is collected. Read
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