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23.01.2018 FRANCE  Relatively limited market growth in 2017 / Share of exports declining slightly / Paris declares closed-loop economy a priority issue / Plastics converters' association FEP opposes quota for recyclate use

22.01.2018 INTERVIEW  Jürgen Bruder, head of German plastic packaging association IK / Over half of domestic plastic packaging is already recycled / Plans in progress to improve eco-design and recyclate use

19.01.2018 EU PLASTICS STRATEGY  First EU-wide strategy on plastics / Focus on recycling / Revision of packaging directive / Framework for waste prevention / Advancing global action / Industry associations make their own recycling commitments

19.01.2018 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  European associations co-author voluntary commitments framework / Plastics recycling and resource efficiency

19.01.2018 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  UK supermarket chain Iceland to phase out plastic packaging of own-label products / BPF claims move will do nothing to curb marine litter

18.01.2018 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  BASF and Americas Styrenics join World Plastics Council

16.01.2018 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  PlasticsEurope hails EP's rejection of full BPA food packaging ban / ECHA adds endocrine disruptor to the chemical's SVHC entry / EFSA still awaiting US study conclusion?

15.01.2018 MICROPLASTICS  UK government brings in cosmetics microbeads ban / Move comes as prime minister demands reduction in plastic use and waste / BPF cautions on government's tone of language

12.01.2018 SINGLE-USE PLASTICS  UK mulls charge on disposable coffee cups to cut waste / Report calls for all cups to be recycled by 2023

11.01.2018 SAUDI ARABIA  Certain packaging plastics required to be oxo-degradable / Customs checks since December 2017

10.01.2018 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  Updated recycling guidelines for plastics / Coloured and non-coloured packaging

09.01.2018 DOWDUPONT  Plan to aid Indonesian efforts to process locally-collected plastics waste into roads / Project could help reduce ocean plastics

05.01.2018 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  Lack of awareness about recycling among young people in UK, Germany and Poland / More than two-thirds of consumers aged 65+ in Germany recycle all their plastics / PlasticsEurope survey

04.01.2018 PET RECYCLING  Collection and recycling of PET rises in Western Europe / Recycling rate reaches 56 percent in 2016 / Petcore Europe report

03.01.2018 BIOPLASTICS  EU producers press for lower bioethanol duties / Competition from the Americas

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