The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC), thanks the European Commission and Eunomia for the informative and often detailed series of workshops to support the measures created within the Impact Assessment for the revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) 94/62/EC.^[1] EuRIC strongly supports the need for ambitious measures in the field of packaging waste, to ensure the much-needed drive towards the circular economy, as promised in the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP).^[2] The crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic showed that the only manner to de-correlated recycled materials prices from market ones which fail to internalise externalise are binding measures to incentivise circular materials’ use^[3] Thus, a continued focus is required on this level of ambition to avoid the watering down of pro-Circular measures.

This paper outlines the key cross-cutting positions of the European Recycling Industry. We look forward to workingclosely with the European Commission and Eunomia to ensure a progressive push in the revision of the PPWD’sessential requirements.

1 Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste. Link here
2 Circular Economy Action Plan: For a cleaner and more competitive Europe. Link here.
3 EuRIC Press Release – Decisive actions needed to support plastics recycling in Europe, June 2020.