01 Mar 2024 --- Germany’s plastics industry is making renewed calls for a revision of government plans to introduce a national plastics tax next year, stressing that if the issue goes unresolved before the federal elections in 2025, it will be a “disaster” as the industry is unable to plan investments given current legislative uncertainty. Antonia Cartmill, senior sales director for Packaging & Specialty Plastics at Dow and board member of Plastics Europe Germany, tells us the national tax plans, which were already delayed by a year until January 1 2025, should be scrapped entirely.
