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01.08.2025 WASTE LEGISLATION GERMANY  “You pay for the total weight – not just the plastic content” / Why the Single-Use Plastics Fund Act may become a cost trap for packaging manufacturers / PIE interview with lawyer Christoph Schnoor

01.08.2025 PACKAGING UK  Recycling rate at nearly 54% / Reporting requirements yield more accurate data

31.07.2025 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT ASEAN  Plastics use soars in Asia, environmental leakage set to escalate / Waste to double by 2050 in absence of urgent action – OECD report

25.07.2025 USA  EPA loses even more muscle / Zeldin touts big savings through ‘organisational improvements' and job cuts / NGOs challenge pollution rule exemptions

22.07.2025 WASTE LEGISLATION  PPWR: Industry associations call for postponement of EU packaging regulation

21.07.2025 IKEA  Furniture group plans to eliminate plastic packaging by 2028

21.07.2025 BOTTLE RECYLING EU  Mass-balance method soon to be acceptable / New rules to accept chemical recycling / Criticism of method continues

14.07.2025 PLASTIC PACKAGING  EuPC warns reusable alternatives to SUP pallet wraps could backfire / Study estimates added annual costs at EUR 4.9 bn in eight sectors

09.07.2025 MICROPLASTICS  Joint technical paper to help companies with new REACH labelling requirement

08.07.2025 EU POLICY  Commission to stick by emissions-reduction plan / Compromise sees carbon credits be part of total

07.07.2025 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  Proposals for new maritime plastic-pellet transport rules rejected / UN experts meet

04.07.2025 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  US PET producer sued for contaminating drinking water / EPA says 1.4-dioxane is a carcinogen

04.07.2025 LISBON  Launch of Europe's first city-wide reusable cup system

03.07.2025 EU POLICY  Green agenda starts to wither / Is brown the new beautiful? / Macron calls for second rethink of 2040 targets

01.07.2025 PLASTICS RECYCLING  Market protection and trade control: industry in danger through fraudulent imports – Bvse / 27th International Waste Plastics Day in Dresden

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