Europe's plastics industry has broadly backed the European Commission's (EC) proposal to end the landfilling of all recyclable waste by 2025 but called for "a more ambitious" 2020 deadline for plastics. "The examples of those member states that have already successfully phased out landfilling show that a legislative decision is needed to trigger the necessary investments in recycling and energy recovery of valuable resources like plastics," said Karl Foerster, executive director of PlasticsEurope. "[But] we would have liked to see a more ambitious approach to support our target of zero plastics to landfill by 2020." PlasticsEurope also supported the Commission's drive to increase the reliability of waste data and its consistency across the European Union (EU) through a harmonised calculation.
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