The EU is close to agreeing new rules around packaging and packaging waste,but proposed amendments risk ‘flooding the market with millions of tonnes of new plastic’ and rolling back a decade of measures to curb plastic use, according to DS Smith.
Amendments to the Commission’s proposal for a Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) are being debated by MEPs and Member States, and proposed changes include introducing mandatory reuse targets for all materials.
The corrugated giant is calling on all MEPs to oppose the amendments to PPWR and consider the impact that mandates on reuse targets for paper and cardboard would have on the industry, as well as climate change efforts.
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It said that according to independent peer-reviewed analysis commissioned by FEFCO, mandatory reuse targets applied to all materials would increase the amount of plastic packaging in circulation and establish a plastic monopoly on some market segments.
For example, if applied to the transport and e-commerce corrugated cardboard packaging categories, 8.1bn new plastic crates weighing 12mn tonnes will be needed to achieve a reuse target of 90% by 2040, and 16bn litres of water will be needed to wash just half of them for reuse2.
