Plastics Europe, the association of plastics manufacturers in Europe, and EuPC, the association of European Plastics Converters, announce today the launch of the Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) harmonised European certification scheme. Adding this new tool to the OCS toolbox is a milestone for the OCS programme in its work towards zero pellet loss in the environment.

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The energy and raw materials crisis resulting from Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has raised very significant challenges for our industry, supply chain, and all EU economies.

Plastics Europe is delighted to announce today the appointment of Marco ten Bruggencate, Commercial Vice President for Packaging and Specialty Plastics EMEA at Dow, as its President, effective immediately. He succeeds Dr Markus Steilemann, CEO of Covestro.  

PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON OCS CERTIFICATION SCHEME

Plastics Europe is proud of sponsoring the Microplastics Early Career Workshop, taking place this late spring in beautiful Athens, Greece (14th-17th June 2022). The Workshop is a unique occasion for all stakeholders – but particularly for industry – to meet and interact with the microplastic experts of tomorrow. With an innovative format, this initiative aims to offer unprecedented insights in the future of research on this topic, at the same time exploring potential career opportunities in microplastics science beyond the academic world. In fact, Plastics Europe will be on the ground in Athens presenting ways to directly involve microplastics experts within industry: we believe this is a key element to find efficient solutions to this complex and pressing issue.

RecoTrace™, the multi-polymer data collection system to record data on both European plastics recycling volumes and recycled plastics, is now recognised by the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA).

The production of plastics in the EU27 continued to rise in the third quarter 2021 despite a decline in EU27 manufacturing production - thanks to the ongoing demand from abroad.

Ambitious targets have been set for recycled content in plastic products. Achieving them will depend on multi-stakeholder collaboration and enabling regulation.

Join us on Thursday, 9 December at 3 pm for a 1-hour virtual insightful discussion moderated by the Economist Impact Senior Editor, Melanie Noronha with the following panellists:

The Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) Port of Antwerp Activity Report 2021 elaborated by Plastics Europe Belgium together with its value chain partners (Alfaport Voka, essenscia, Febetra, Port of Antwerp and Transport en Logisitek Vlaanderen) gives an overview of the efforts made by the members of the Antwerp Zero Pellet Loss Platform (polymers producers, logistics and transport companies) in respect to OCS implementation.

With the joint initiative "We are Plastics", the three large plastics associations Gesamtverband Kunststoffverarbeitende Industrie (GKV – Plastics Processing Industries), PlasticsEurope Deutschland and Fachverband Kunststoff- und Gummimaschinen (association for plastics and rubber machinery, a division of VDMA German Engineering Federation) built a unique value chain alliance to implement the circular economy and create more sustainability within the key sectors of the plastics industry (converters, manufacturers and machinery).

PlasticsEurope Polska report “Plastics industry in pandemic 2020/2021” presented during the biggest plastics industry fair in Poland.