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The 30th Issue of ÇEVKO Transformation Magazine is Out!
21 Jul 2024Dear Readers,
In this issue of
ÇEVKO DÖNİĞİM, we gathered the topics under the headings "Green Transformation", "Responsible Industry and Sustainability", "Green Dot" and "Waste Management and Recycling". We shortened our magazine to make it easier to read, and decided to provide English versions of the texts as summaries rather than full translations. We included vector designed images with an innovative approach. I hope you like the new version of our e-magazine.
Negotiations between the Commission, Parliament and Council are about to be completed to finalize the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in the EU. The relevant regulation, which has become a "Regulation", which is a more binding norm for all member states than the "Directive" under EU rules, according to the EU's statement: "It updates the EU legal framework for packaging and packaging waste; as an integral part of the European Green Deal and the new EU Circular Economy Action Plan, the EU aims to achieve growth for a modern, resource-efficient, clean and competitive economy with no net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use." will contribute to its strategy.”
The EU Commission attributes the need for new regulation to the following three main problems, according to their impact assessment:
(1) Increasing amount of packaging waste: Directive 94/62/EC has not been able to reverse this trend despite specific provisions on packaging minimisation. New consumption habits (e.g. on-the-go consumption, increased online sales and home deliveries) have contributed to the increase in the amount of packaging waste.
(2) Barriers to packaging recycling and reuse: These include factors such as the increased use of packaging design features that prevent recycling, contamination of recyclable packaging waste by compostable organic waste, potentially hazardous substances in packaging, and uncertainty about labeling packaging for sorting. As a result, the priority of reuse and recycling over recovery and landfill in the waste hierarchy has not yet been fully implemented.
(3) Low recycling quality and use of secondary raw materials in plastic packaging: This limits the EU's ability to reduce the use of virgin materials in new packaging. Market failures and shortcomings in the current directive complicate the profitability of recycling activities and the investments in the technology and supply logistics required to ensure high-quality collection, sorting and recycling of packaging.
Given the above, the objectives of the new regulation, according to the Commission, are to: (i) reduce the generation of packaging waste, while improving the functioning of the internal market; (ii) promoting a circular economy for cost-effective packaging; and (iii) reduce the negative environmental impacts of packaging and packaging waste by encouraging the use of recycled content in packaging.
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation was adopted by the European Parliament Environment Committee with 63 votes in favour, 9 against and 3 abstentions. To summarize the accepted text, the provisions regarding "establishing deposit return systems" and "establishing recycled content targets for contact-sensitive packaging" were preserved in the text; Provisions on “separate collection of each waste” and “extended producer responsibility organization for packaging recycling to be operated by the state” have been removed from the text. The definitions of “recyclability” and “high-quality recycling” encourage “open-loop recycling” as well as “modulation of the GPP fee” based on packaging recyclability performance ratings.
The next legislative stage regarding the adoption of the Regulation is the General Assembly of the European Parliament, which will be held on 24 April 2024. The Regulations will be formally adopted after a legal review by the Council; It will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the official gazette of the EU and will begin to be implemented 18 months after its entry into force, that is, approximately in the 2nd quarter of 2026.
We will continue to follow the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, which is of great concern to Turkey.
I am pleased to present you another issue of ÇEVKO DÖNUSÜM, and I would like to wholeheartedly thank those who contributed to the preparation of our e-magazine.
Mete İmer
ÇEVKO Foundation General Secretary
Click to read the 30th issue of our ÇEVKO Transformation magazine.
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