New report issued by SusChem and partners: Robust Agenda to achieve Circularity of Plastics
In response to the European Plastics Strategy, the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) and partners issue a new report: Plastics Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda in a Circular Economy. This report identifies the challenges to plastics circularity and defines the types of solutions needed to address them. Future research is required in three main areas: Circularity by design, recycling and alternative feedstock. SusChem Chairman Dr. Markus Steilemann said: “The Plastics industry is committed to increase the resource efficiency of its production processes and to face the challenge of closing the circularity loop. The new Research and Innovation Agenda gives fresh impetus on the strongest way to drive progress along plastics value chains by means of collaboration.” The analysis from this report has helped to identify priorities, projects and the level of investment needed to achieve full circularity of plastics. SusChem and its partners – Cefic, PlasticsEurope, European Plastics Converters (EuPC) and the European Composites, Plastics and Polymer Processing Platform (ECP4) – will use this report as their main input to EU innovation policy on the circularity of plastics. We hope this document will inspire an increase in the number of collaborative projects as well as European and Member States’ support for a full implementation of the solutions proposed. Read here: https://bit.ly/2zJxono(opens in new window) www.suschem.org
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