European Council

The European Council and Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment. The new rules will help improve the handling of plastic pellets at all stages of the supply chain, both on land and sea...

On 16 December the European Council formally adopted the Regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR). The new rules aim to reduce the generation of packaging waste by setting binding re-use targets, restricting certain types of single-use packaging and requiring...