Plastics recycling

Summary:

Set of special reports published by EurActiv in 2014 relating to plastics recycling. The features include:

• EU must end landfilling, says top environment official

The European Union's lead civil servant for the environment has called for a ban on landfilling and warned that separate collection is not enough if the EU is to improve its environmental performance.

• EU to align environmental gauges for construction products

The European Commission intends to align existing methods and standards to assess environmental performances of construction products, with the objective of favouring 'green' comparisons, and higher levels of recycling and reuse.

• Plastics industry 'on the right track' to eliminate landfilling, EU says

As the European Commission prepares to review the EU’s waste targets, the plastics industry, a symbol of the EU’s ‘throw-away society’, is one of the focal points in discussions on resource efficiency.

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