“Once the CEP is implemented by 2020 in the Member States, it will bring numerous benefits for the environment, businesses and consumers. We believe the EU-institutions have provided strong foundations upon which the Member States can build even if important follow-up work still needs to be done in the next two years. APEAL is committed to work with the European Commission and all stakeholders to make the new legislation a success,” he added.
“APEAL is particularly pleased that the EP has endorsed the concept of “multiple recycling” in the final text. Through multiple recycling, products and packaging made from permanent materials, such as steel, are kept in the material loop and can become resources for other products and packaging.
We also welcome the maintaining of the ‘internal market’ legal base of the PPWD1 in order to safeguard the Internal market and the free circulation of packaging and packaged goods. Even if the agreed recycling targets for all materials are an important step forward, we remain disappointed that during the final Trilogue (December 2017) a flexibility mechanism for Member States was introduced allowing them to perform lower in one or two packaging materials of their choice.
Today with 77,5% recycled in 20152, steel for packaging is both a pioneer of circular economy and a model for closed loop recycling. This was clearly demonstrated at the high-level ‘Steel for Packaging, a Pioneer of Circular Economy’ conference last week in Brussels, where policymakers and stakeholders examined ways of working together to fully close the loop on steel packaging recycling in EU countries and achieve the higher recycling targets set out in the CEP.”
