An initial interinstitutional meeting (‘trilogue’) between the EU Council and the Parliament, on the regulation on the prevention of plastic pellet losses to the environment, was held on Thursday 30 January.
The regulation on microplastics aims to improve the handling of plastic pellets at all stages of the supply chain in order to reduce losses to the environment. In 2019, between 52,140 and 184,290 tonnes of pellets were released into the environment in the EU (see EUROPE...