The EU Council and the European Parliament (EP) have provisionally agreed on a regulation to tackle environmental pollution with plastic pellets — an industrial raw material used in plastic products. We discuss what packagers can do to prevent pellet spillage with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Brussels-based NGO Seas At Risk. “Plastic pellets are released into the environment through spills, poor handling practices, and inadequate containment across the entire supply chain — during production, transport, storage, and recycling,” Amy Youngman, legal and policy specialist at EIA, tells Packaging Insights.
