04 Apr 2023 --- A cross-sectoral body of material suppliers and associations has called on the European Commission (EC) to implement a harmonized method for calculating chemically recycled content. The method the group requests is a fuel-exempt mass balance approach, which it says is essential if the EU is to meet the packaging and packaging waste (PPWD) revisions. However, environmentalists say the requested methods are “too loose” and would reduce transparency, allowing for unreliable or exaggerated environmental claims. This could threaten the EC’s effectiveness in combating greenwashing, as established recently in its Green Claims Code directive.
