The Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) has announced new important actions to achieve at least 10 million tones of recycled plastics by 2025:

• The adoption of a new roadmap to 2025, which will be regularly updated based on the dialogue with the relevant stakeholders of the sector.
• The development of an EU-wide monitoring system on recycled plastics.
• An updated work plan on design-for-recycling, which lists 26 plastic product categories that the alliance commits to make recyclable. These 26 categories cover packaging, construction, agriculture, and home appliances that altogether account for over 60% of plastic waste collected in Europe.

Launched in December 2018, CPA today has 293 signatories from industry, academia and the public sector.

ECRN officially joined in 2021. The network contributes to the Alliance by facilitating interregional cooperation and disseminating innovative solutions and technologies developed by its member regions to halt plastic waste and advance recycling. In particular, chemical recycling is crucial in that it can treat plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled.

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