{"id":12109,"date":"2023-11-23T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=12109"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:51:16","slug":"ppwr-eu-parliament-strikes-a-balance-for-circular-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/ppwr-eu-parliament-strikes-a-balance-for-circular-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"PPWR \u2013 EU Parliament strikes a balance for circular packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The corrugated cardboard industry supports the European Commission\u2019s intention \u201cto reduce the negative environmental impacts of packaging and packaging waste while improving the functioning of the internal market\u201d via the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, FEFCO welcomes the outcome of yesterday\u2019s European Parliament Plenary session vote on the legislation. The vote has established the way forward for a sustainable packaging industry. Notably, it sets ambitious provisions for circularity while preserving existing, well-functioning waste management systems and acknowledging the competitiveness of European businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FEFCO now calls on the Council to follow the same direction to ensure the complementarity of recycling and reuse in the final PPWR legislation. The preservation of sustainable packaging industries, like corrugated cardboard, requires a balanced and realistic approach that secures competitiveness and harmonises the internal market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corrugated cardboard is one of the most recycled packaging in Europe, with a recycling rate of over 90 per cent and an average recycled content of 89 per cent [1] from a renewable source. Corrugated cardboard packaging is a unique example of circularity and FEFCO member companies are dedicated to further improving the sustainability of packaging systems in the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleni Despotou, Director General of FEFCO, said \u201cThe corrugated cardboard industry is committed to supporting the PPWR objectives while promoting circular packaging options for the benefit of the environment and society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corrugated cardboard industry supports the European Commission\u2019s intention \u201cto reduce the negative environmental impacts of packaging and packaging waste while improving the functioning of the internal market\u201d via the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Therefore, FEFCO welcomes the outcome of yesterday\u2019s European Parliament Plenary session vote on the legislation. The vote has established<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[559],"class_list":{"0":"post-12109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-fefco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12110,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions\/12110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}