Two Flemish government agencies, Havenbedrijf Antwerpen (Port of Antwerp) and Flanders Investment & Trade, refused to disclose information on the 3 billion euro plastics plant that INEOS intends to build in Antwerp, Belgium. But the official transparency watchdog insists on more transparency.
On Wednesday the 27th of March, the European Parliament will vote on the Single-Use Plastics Directive. This legal text bans a range of single-use plastic items, requires 90% separate collection of plastic bottles in the near future, and rightfully lays the bill of the cleaning-up costs where it belongs: the producers of plastic.
The Plastic Pact of the Dutch government and 80 plastic producing companies will lead to more efficient recycling, but it won’t solve the plastic waste problem, the Belgian-Dutch environmental ngo Recycling Netwerk Benelux says today. The Dutch secretary of state...
Many of the 28 members forming the Alliance, including major companies like BASF, Shell, ExxonMobil and Dow, have scheduled future billion dollar investments in the expansion of plastic production. They don’t practice what they preach, research by the Dutch-Belgian...
Environmental NGO Recycling Netwerk Benelux reacts on the billion-dollar initiative of the world's biggest plastic manufacturers. Information on the “Alliance to End Plastic Waste” leaked in the German newspaper Handelsblatt. Procter & Gamble, BASF, DSM, Dow,...
The directive contains important measures: - Producers of certain single-use items containing plastic, such as cigarettes, balloons, specific food containers and drink containers will have to pay the clean-up costs of litter (extended producer responsibility, in...
This directive is key in the war on plastic waste. Its impact can only be realised when the ambitions and instruments are kept fully intact during the trilogues between Commission, Parliament and Council. All eyes are on the position of the Council. Reports on...
Carpet is a significant waste stream, creating around 1,6 million tonnes of waste every year in the European Union. Most carpets are made from finite oil-based plastics. Less than an estimated 3 % of European carpet is currently recycled. The EU is the second...
The European Parliament strongly backed the Commission’s proposal to ban a range of single-use plastics and to ensure that producers will pay the clean up costs. On October 24th, an impressive 91.5% of the Parliament supported the ambition to curb the ocean...