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25.09.2025 PORTUGAL  Government allocates EUR 30 mn to strengthen recycling, waste recovery / Over half of the waste still landfilled

25.09.2025 PFAS  ECHA wraps up restriction planning for forever chemicals / Draft opinion expected by mid-2026

18.09.2025 LIDL / KAUFLAND  Schwarz retail group lags in recyclates use / Previous plastics strategy to be expanded

16.09.2025 SPAIN  Household plastics market poised for robust growth / Shift towards environmentally friendly products / Asian countries look into export opportunities

15.09.2025 CIRCULAR ECONOMY  Subsidies for innovative products underway / Brussels sets the stage but Netherlands leads on circular plastics

09.09.2025 ENVALIOR  Lanxess-Advent JV diverts 88% of generated waste from landfill / 2024 sustainability report published

05.09.2025 PLASTICS INDUSTRY EUROPE  Competitiveness crisis: Associations call for swift action to bridge EU policy gap / “De-industrialisation is rapidly becoming a reality”

02.09.2025 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY  Global chemical coalition launches innovation platform / Start-ups, academia collaborate with industry leaders to catalyse sustainability

01.09.2025 SPAIN  Bottle deposit system to become mandatory end of 2026 / Recycling targets missed

01.09.2025 SWEDEN  Duni introduces reusable packaging system for food and drinks

26.08.2025 PFAS  ECHA presents long-awaited restriction proposal update / Two-year review of scientific comment concluded / Commission to make final decision

22.08.2025 IKEA  Retailer Ingka invests in Chinese recycler Re-mall / Plans to invest in expansion of current 50,000 t/y capacity, product development

20.08.2025 EDITORIAL The (plastics) summit of disappointment, embarrassment, and hypocrisy

15.08.2025 UN PLASTICS TREATY  Crucial talks end with no deal / ‘Bad actors' blamed for failure to agree on limit of plastics production / Industry bodies call for continued dialogue

15.08.2025 UN PLASTICS TREATY  Talks extended into 10th day / Environment groups condemn original draft text / Proposals ‘ensure nothing will change' and are ‘completely unacceptable'

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