European Commission Circular Plastics Alliance
15 May 2019
Making plastics more circular to avoid plastic littering into the environment is a priority for the European Union. Recycling more plastics is a key solution.
The Circular Plastics Alliance gathers key stakeholders in the plastics value chains to promote new voluntary action by industry for more recycled plastics. The Circular Plastics Alliance wants to ensure that 10 million tons of recycled plastics find their way into new European products by 2025.
The Alliance has confirmed commitment to work together along the plastics value chains and ensure that 10 million tons of recycled plastics are used in the EU by 2025.
They agreed to work in priority on 5 topics:
- Collection and sorting of plastic waste
- Product design for recycling
- Recycled plastic content in products
- R&D and investments, including chemical recycling
- Monitoring of recycled plastics sold in the EU
Companies are being offered the chance to pledge committements to this target and work to include recycled content within plastic products and packaging. Orgalim are engaging with this work and have writtten the below outlining key factors that need to be considered in future pledges and work under the Alliance.