#Wasteland – #Europe’s #plastic #disaster

Source: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/wasteland-plastic-recycling/

Back in 2015, the EU presented an action plan for a circular #economy and vowed to “close the loop”. In the #future, raw materials like plastic should circulate endlessly. From production to the #supermarket, to the dining table, to the rubbish bin and back to the recycling plant. New plastic would seamlessly emerge from old. In a closed, circular system, raw materials would be reused again and again, and looming #climate and environmental #crises would be averted.

But as new #research by Investigate Europe documents, the #EU is still far from achieving this seven years after presenting its #recycling plan.

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