IIn the EU, significantly more packaging will have to be recyclable in the future. Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU countries agreed on this on Monday evening in Brussels, they announced. Parliament also announced that certain disposable packaging, such as for unprocessed fresh fruit and vegetables or individual packaging for sugar, for example, will be banned from 2030. The goal is to gradually reduce packaging waste in the international community by at least 15 percent by 2040 compared to 2018.
The basis for the negotiations was a legislative proposal from the EU Commission from 2022. The new rules still have to be formally adopted by the states and the EU Parliament.
According to the latest figures from the EU statistics authority Eurostat, there were 188.7 kilograms of packaging waste per inhabitant in the EU in 2021. The numbers vary widely within the EU – while in Croatia there was around 74 kilograms of packaging waste per capita, in Ireland it was around 246 kilograms. According to the data, in Germany it was around 237 kilograms. In the second Corona year of 2021, there were temporary lockdowns in some countries.
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