PLASTICS RECYCLING
Founding members of Plastics 2020 Challenge adopt framework programme / Join "Pledge4Plastics" to raise awareness and lift UK rates
On the heels of the roll-out earlier this week of a new UK initiative, "Pledge4Plastics" (http://www.pledge4plastics.co.uk/) – see Plasteurope.com of 10.09.2014 – to boost household recycling rates, another programme now takes the spotlight as both industry and government ramp up efforts to meet recent EU proposals to increase packaging recycling targets.
The founding partners of the “Plastics 2020 Challenge” (www.plastics2020challenge.com), the British Plastics Federation (BPF, London / UK; www.bpf.co.uk), PlasticsEurope (Brussels / Belgium; www.plasticseurope.org), and the UK’s Packaging & Films Association (PAFA, Nottingham; www.pafa.org.uk) have announced their intention to adopt the work programme known as “PIRAP” (Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan) and develop it further into a detailed action plan to help industry move toward the 2017 plastics recycling targets set by the UK government.
Bringing together 48 stakeholders from government and industry, PIRAP was initially created to identify actions that would help improve plastic recycling in the UK and had been chaired by the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP, Banbury / UK; www.wrap.org.uk).
With support from WRAP, Plastics 2020 now plans to seek support from a wide range of stakeholders including brands, retailers, local authorities, waste management companies, UK central government departments and agencies as well as its own industry members and recyclers to turn the framework document into reality.
In a joint statement, the partners noted that “the UK has made tremendous progress in recent years and the Plastics 2020 Consortium believe that if we can further improve infrastructure links and engender closer working relationships among all relevant stakeholders, a vibrant recycling business sector, producing high quality products and additional jobs, will continue to develop within the UK.”
In addition, the three partners said they strongly support the "Pledge4Plastics" campaign as part of their wider commitment to help recover more recyclable plastic packaging through the mobilisation of a wide range of stakeholders.
The Plastics 2020 challenge was launched by the UK plastics industry in 2009 with the goal of doubling plastic packaging recycling rates by 2020 – see Plasteurope.com of 14.07.2009.
The founding partners of the “Plastics 2020 Challenge” (www.plastics2020challenge.com), the British Plastics Federation (BPF, London / UK; www.bpf.co.uk), PlasticsEurope (Brussels / Belgium; www.plasticseurope.org), and the UK’s Packaging & Films Association (PAFA, Nottingham; www.pafa.org.uk) have announced their intention to adopt the work programme known as “PIRAP” (Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan) and develop it further into a detailed action plan to help industry move toward the 2017 plastics recycling targets set by the UK government.
Bringing together 48 stakeholders from government and industry, PIRAP was initially created to identify actions that would help improve plastic recycling in the UK and had been chaired by the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP, Banbury / UK; www.wrap.org.uk).
With support from WRAP, Plastics 2020 now plans to seek support from a wide range of stakeholders including brands, retailers, local authorities, waste management companies, UK central government departments and agencies as well as its own industry members and recyclers to turn the framework document into reality.
In a joint statement, the partners noted that “the UK has made tremendous progress in recent years and the Plastics 2020 Consortium believe that if we can further improve infrastructure links and engender closer working relationships among all relevant stakeholders, a vibrant recycling business sector, producing high quality products and additional jobs, will continue to develop within the UK.”
In addition, the three partners said they strongly support the "Pledge4Plastics" campaign as part of their wider commitment to help recover more recyclable plastic packaging through the mobilisation of a wide range of stakeholders.
The Plastics 2020 challenge was launched by the UK plastics industry in 2009 with the goal of doubling plastic packaging recycling rates by 2020 – see Plasteurope.com of 14.07.2009.
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Published on 11.09.2014