Media Overview March

Circular Plastics NL maintains a news overview. Below is this month's selection of mainstream media coverage on plastics and circularity.

For more depth and knowledge, the CPNL knowledge desk is available online which includes studies, background information, reports, presentations on plastics.

• • • 'Imports, lack of enforcement and control mechanisms turn EU recycling targets into question marks' | Article | Packaging Europe
    • Don't trash European recycling - Politico
    • Verpact out of the starting blocks-Waste Online
    • 'Circular goals not met, good plastic also goes into incinerator' - NPO radio 1
    • EU tackles packaging waste, but leaves many loopholes open - PPWR by RNE
  • Recycling industry can't wait for circular plastic to become mandatory - Wed.
  • Municipalities angry: collected waste plastic is still being burned - NRC

  • ING: 'Making regular plastic production more sustainable via CCS and recycling effective and affordable' - Plastics and Rubber

  • National Growth Fund stops for now: 'Parties prefer to keep all money in their own hands' - BNR news radio
  • Ronald Korstanje (ISPT): 'Policy and innovation can reverse plastic crisis' - sustainable-entrepreneurship.com

  • Plastic chain does not stop at collection - industry sustainability platform

  • Continued existence of National Growth Fund still uncertain, employers disappointed - NIS

  • 'Why do we "need" to earn from plastic recycling?' - sustainable-business.com

  • European share of global plastic production falls sharply - plastics and rubber
  • How sustainable are reusable totebags, straws and diapers? - radio 1 BE
  • Gabriel's new rapporteur CE - wasteonline
  • NRK asks cabinet to support recyclers and expresses concerns about NCPN in Algemeen Dagblad