Plastics Europe today, 26 June 2025, announces the appointment of Benny Mermans, Vice President Sustainability at Chevron Phillips Chemical, as its President, with immediate effect. He succeeds Marco ten Bruggencate, President of Dow’s Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure business, EMEAI.

Calls for urgent policy support to boost investment in infrastructure and innovation 

The following statement can be attributed to Virginia Janssens, Managing Director at Plastics Europe:

The following statement can be attributed to Virginia Janssens, Managing Director at Plastics Europe:

Alexander Röder, Climate & Production Director of Plastics Europe, said:

Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, said:

Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, said:

Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, said:

At its plenary sitting in Strasbourg this week, the European Parliament will be asked to vote on the ENVI Committee’s proposed motion for a resolution objecting to the European Commission’s draft Implementing Act on measuring recycled content in Single Use Plastics (secondary legislation as a follow-up to the SUP Directive), rejecting the fuel-use exempt mass balance method as proposed by the Commission. 

The undersigned associations representing different segments of the packaging value chain, urge policy makers to agree on effective and realistic measures for transport packaging during the trilogue negotiations on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Such measures should take into account the real impact that reuse obligations have on certain packaging formats and related products.

Plenary vote is a missed opportunity to incentivise investments in circular plastics packaging.