Single Use Plastic Directive Implementing Decision. Fanny Rateau, Senior Programme Manager: "The European Commission has adopted the petrochemical industry’s creative accounting method of including recycled plastic content from ‘chemical recycling’, especially pyrolysis. This mass balance, fuel-exempt approach will artificially inflate recycled-content and legitimise lock-in technologies, rather than rewarding more circular recycling.”
The European Commission's implementing decision on the #SingleUse Plastic Directive #SUPD fails to support #circular recycling technologies and will not adequately support the reduction of virgin #plastic