Every instrument available to the European Commission and the member states of the EU will be used in the EU’s first holistic strategy on plastics that the Commission is due to present in Strasbourg on Tuesday 16 January as part of efforts to speed up the transition to a circular economy (see EUROPE 11934).
Under the terms of this strategy, which combines legislation, economic incentives and voluntary commitments, all plastic packaging on the EU market will have to be recyclable by 2030,...