By December 21, 2025, at least 65% by weight of all packaging waste must be recycled, with a target of recycling 50% of all plastic. The European Packaging and packaging waste directive (PPWD) 94/62/EC (1994) was reinforced with new targets in 2018.
In 2019, the EU adopted its single use plastic ban for the most common single-use items found on beaches, such as cutlery, plates, and straws.In 2018, packaging represented the largest amount of plastic waste generation at 60%. Watch this video on GSK's 20% plastic reduction on Advil bottles.Ģ018 EU Plastics Strategy: Wagner noted that the 2015 demand for plastics in Europe was estimated at 49 million tonnes with almost 40% attributed to packaging. Concentration limits on persistent organic pollutants.Packaging and packaging waste sustainable products policy initiative with eco-design.Empowering consumers in the green transition, because they are considered as a very important driving force.
Substantiating green claims made by companies. The first CEAP was adopted in 2015, with the latest iteration released in March 2020. Wagner highlighted a few emerging objectives that will help put these concepts into action.Ĭircular Economy Action Plan (CEAP): This part of the European Green Deal is mainly focused on halting the depletion of natural resources and creating sustainable growth and jobs. “So, it's really addressing almost everything,” he said. It also targets the technologies that we use to produce products and the products themselves, energy systems, buildings that we live in, and greener lifestyles. Wagner explained that the plan addresses working with nature to protect our planet and health, boosting global climate action, and making transport sustainable for all. The most ambitious plan is probably by the European Union: The European Green Deal, seeking to make Europe the first ‘climate neutral’ continent by 2050.” “Countries around the world have the adopted various actions to move forward on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. “These goals have become the blueprint for many companies to align their development and innovation goals against, including my own company,” Wagner said. He pointed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that encompass social, economic, and environmental targets such as zero hunger, clean water, good health, decent work and economic growth, all while considering our climate and consuming in a responsible way based on circular economics. Thierry Wagner, global director, regulatory & standards – healthcare at DuPont, began his talk at the virtual Medical Packaging Conference with the UN definition of sustainability in that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We’d be remiss if we didn’t begin any article covering packaging sustainability with the reminder that sustainability is more than recycling.
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