Keep recycling targets realistic and in the packaging directive

摘要

EU packaging recycling targets should be realistic and stay in the EU packaging and packaging and waste directive, the European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN) told its 20th anniversary meeting last week. "EUROPEN members are not against higher recycling targets," its managing director Virginia Janssens told the 9 October meeting. "However, they are not necessarily environmentally beneficial in all cases or make sense, economically. The priority should be to optimise rather than maximise recycling.