EuPC launches survey on the use of recycled plastics

In the light of the latest developments in the field of the European Union circular economy and the approaching European strategy on plastics, the Brussels-based European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC) has launched a European survey on the current and future use of recycled plastics materials (RPM) in Europe’s plastics converting industry.

The importance of recycling also was addressed during the two-day conference, A Circular Future with Plastics, that EuPC organized together with the Spanish Plastics Association (ANAIP), Madrid, earlier this June.

Because converting companies form the largest part of the European plastics industry, EuPC says their participation is essential to reaching ambitious recycling targets.

“Plastics converters are the heart of the plastics industry,” says Daniel Calleja Crespo, director general of DG Environment of the European Commission.

The survey is part of a larger initiative of EuPC to get deeper insights into the challenges the converting industry is facing regarding the use of RPM. Further surveys are expected to follow in 2018.

EuPC Managing Director Alexandre Dangis says, “Our survey on the use of RPM in the plastics converting industry will enable EuPC to identify the difficulties we are facing as an industry and help to find solutions for the future.”

The survey is open to all European companies active in the plastics converting industry and is available online in eight languages. It will remain accessible until the end of September, and EuPC says it plans to publish the results during October 2017.

Click your language to participate: English, Polish, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, German, French and Bulgarian.

More information is available from Felix Miessen at felix.miessen@eupc.org.