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Plastics 2030 – A Voluntary Commitment for a circular and resource efficient EuropeEESC - Public Hearing 10 April 2018Dr. Leonor Garcia, Director Public Affairs
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Who we are
PlasticsEurope is the pan-European organisation (with more than 100 member companies) representing the plastics manufacturers at the EU, regional and national level.
BulgariaCroatiaCyprusGreeceItalyMaltaRomaniaTurkey
MEDITERRANEANMilan, Italy
PortugalSpain
IBÉRICAMadrid, Spain
AustriaCzech RepublicGermanyHungaryPolandSlovakiaSloveniaSwitzerland
CENTRALFrankfurt, Germany
Warsaw, PolandVienna, Austria
DenmarkEstoniaFinlandIrelandLatviaLithuaniaNorwaySwedenUK
NORTHLondon, UK
FranceBelgiumLuxembourgNetherlands
WESTParis, France
The Hague, Netherlands
HEADQUARTERS – Brussels, Belgium
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Plastics Industry: A strategic partner for a circular & resource effic ient Europe
The European plastics industry includes plastics producers, plastics converters and plastics machinery manufacturers in Europe.
Data: 2017. Sources: PlasticsEurope, Eurostat, PlasticsEurope Market Research Group (PEMRG).
Direct employment to over
1.5 million people in Europe
More than60.000
most of them SME
350 billion euroin 2016
Top 5 Most
Innovative Sectors
JOBS COMPANIES TURNOVER INNOVATION
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PlasticsEurope welcomes EC’s Strategy for Plasticsand its vision for a circular
and resource efficient Europe
The ambitious strategy provides the industry with a challenging opportunity
that cannot be missed
Commonality of objectives: • 1. Preventing plastic leakage
into the environment• 2. Increase of recycling and
re-use• 3. Innovation and investments• 4. Global action
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PlasticsEurope’s contribution to the joint vision of the Strategy
• PlasticsEurope published the “Plastics 2030 Voluntary Commitment”
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Summary of the Voluntary Commitment
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General commitmentsPrevent the leakage of plastics into the environment• Prevent littering: identification and littering prevention solution of
most found items into the environment• Prevent pellet loss: Operation Clean Sweep®
Improve resource efficiency and circularity of plastics
• Accelerate research of alternative feedstocks
• Product Life Cycle Inventory: update of datasets every three years
• Extension of waste data collection, including new data on circularity of plastics
• Eco-design guidelines for plastics packaging finalised by 2020
• Support standardisation for quality standards for sorted plastics
Global Initiatives• Global Plastics AllianceMarine Litter Solutions: 355 projects in 40 countries
• World Plastics CouncilSupport of global initiatives and cooperation with UNEP, G7/G20
Summary of the Voluntary Commitment
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Overarching goals• Prevent leakage of plastics into the environment
• Improve resource efficiency
• Improve circularity of plastics packaging
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Voluntary commitment – ambitious targets
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• Increasing engagement inside and outside our industry
• Accelerating innovation in the full life cycle of products
• Reaching in 2040 100% reuse, recycling and/or recovery of all plastic packaging
• in 2030: 60% reuse and recycling of all plastic packaging
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Accelerating innovation in the full life cycle of pr oducts
Feedstock andPlastics ProductionThe first step in a product’s life cycle
InnovationCO2, plastics waste and renewable raw materials as feedstocks to produce plastics,…
Use phaseOften the most important impact of a product’s life cycle
Innovation lightweight products, life saving products, durable products, digitalisation, miniaturization,..
Post-use phaseIncreased emphasis of this product’s life cycle phase• No landfilling, illegal dumping and
littering
InnovationEco-design with plastics, recycling of mixed plastics, innovative additives, feedstock recycling, re-use models, collection, sorting & treatment,…
Summary of the Voluntary Commitment
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Summary of the Voluntary Commitment
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Sector-specific commitments
PVC Packaging Platform•Develop eco-efficient and cost-effective PVC packaging materials, increasingshelf-life for PVC packaged material•Increase safe and quality PVCrecycling, and define targets toward2030 through VinylPlus®www.vinylplus.eu
ReportingMonitoring the progress of the voluntary commitment
• Action plan and time-based performance indicators
• Yearly evaluation provided by independent committee
•Define design guidelines for packaging•Encourage demand for recyclates•Drive R&D of new technologiesto convert non mechanicallyrecyclable plastics into feedstockto produce new materials•Improve mechanical recycling
•Develop technologies to recycle PS/EPS back into original applications•Collaborate with value chain to improve collection and sorting systems for packaging waste•Create an independent structure to finance promising technologies
VinylCircularSolutions
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Summary of the Voluntary Commitment
Global Plastics Alliance
PlasticsEurope’sengagement in global
actions
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