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EU urged to adopt mass balance rules
The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) and 30 other industry associations along the plastics value chain have sent a joint letter to the European Commission calling for adoption of an EU-harmonised rule for calculating chemically recycled content through mass balance in 2023. The letter emphasises that urgent
legal certainty on mass balance chain of custody is necessary, in order to unlock investments required to meet the EU’s 2050 climate and circularity targets.
“We urge the EU to adopt a mass balance chain of custody approach for calculating chemically recycled content in plastics, which is crucial for achieving the 2030 recycled content targets,” according to Annick Meer- schman, innovation director at Cefic. “Moreover, supporting chemical recycling as a complementary solution to mechanical recycling could attract more investments in this technology and help the EU achieve its targets.” �
https://cefic.org
‘Local’ plant residues are turned into bioplastic film
Above: Films made from PBS in the Rubio project are recyclable and biodegradable IMAGE: POLIFILM
Partners in the pan-European Rubio project have used ‘regionally avail- able’ plant residues to create recycla- ble, biodegradable materials. As part of the project, the Fraun- hofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) is developing new types of a bioplastic called polybutyl- ene succinate (PBS) – and, with Polifilm Extrusion has developed an initial commercial product.
www.filmandsheet.com
www.brueckner.com The PBS films are recyclable,
biodegradable and can be processed on standard extrusion lines. “There are currently only three
types of PBS on the market – and these are suitable only for a limited number of processing methods and applications,” said Thomas Büsse, head of the processing pilot plant for biopolymers at Fraunhofer IAP. �
www.iap.fraunhofer.de
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