The PPWR is a pioneering piece of legislation which aims to reduce packaging waste in the EU by setting stricter recycling targets, promoting reuse, and minimizing unnecessary packaging to support a circular economy.
PLA as a leading bioplastic has been addressed, and according to the legal text, the European Commission (as part of secondary legislation) is due to assess biobased plastics and how they can contribute to the EU environmental targets.
The European Commission has agreed to address the following factors in the assessment:
Criteria for feedstock sustainability
Whether biobased content can replace/compliment recycled content
EU targets for biobased content
We support the EU’s approach on PLA and clearly see that the relevant teams are committed to engaging with us and the industry to produce a framework which serves the value chain as a whole.