Single-use plastic beverage bottles public consultation: Ensuring credible and verifiable recycled content through effective mass balance

Plastics Europe welcomes the publication of a draft Implementing Decision on EU harmonised rules for calculating, verifying and reporting recycled content in single-use plastic beverage bottles. We support in particular the Commission’s explicit recognition of chemical recycling as a complement to mechanical recycling, its support for a credit-based fuel-use exempt mass-balance methodology in existing and new assets, and the intent to bring forward clear and implementable rules.