In two years, the European Commission has made good progress in presenting proposals for giving concrete substance to the plan of action for the circular economy taken on by the EU in December 2015, and the first EU strategy on plastics is the most recent illustration of this, stressed Commissioner Vice-President Frans Timmermans when opening the conference of all stakeholders on the circular economy, in Brussels on 20 February.
Timmermans did, however, place emphasis on the next steps to...