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EU WANTS ALL PACKAGING TO BE REUSABLE OR RECYCLABLE BY 2030
The European Commission published Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation PPWR proposal in November. The main aims of the regulation are to reduce packag- ing waste and avoid unnecessary packaging, have all packaging to be reusable or recyclable by 2030 and increase recycled content in the plastic
parts of packaging. If the EU-lawmakers manage to finalise the legislative process before the next European Parlia- ment elections, the regulation enters into force in 2024. It becomes law in Member States 12 months after entry into force. Some of the requirements, restrictions and bans would enter into force in 2025 and some in 2030 and in 2040. “The general goals of the proposal are good and needed. Still, recyclable single-use and reusable packaging should be seen as complementary solutions. Operators should have the possibility to choose the best packaging solution from the environmental, end-use and context points of view case by case based on a material’s life-cycle impact assessment. Industry actors should be deeply involved in defining design for recycling criteria. We are following the process closely, and we also work actively with several associations to get the fibre-based packaging value chain voice heard,” says Tytti Peltonen , VP Corporate Affairs, EU, Metsä Group.
If the EU-lawmakers manage to finalise the legislative process before the next European Parliament elections, the regulation enters into force in 2024.
METSÄ BOARD RECOGNISED AGAIN WITH TRIPLE CDP ‘A’ SCORE FOR TRANSPARENCY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, FORESTS AND WATER SECURITY
Metsä Board has been recognised for leadership in corporate transpa rency and performance on climate change, forests and water security by global environmental non-profit CDP, securing a place on its annual ‘A List’. This was the second consecutive year that Metsä Board scored the outstanding triple ‘A’. Based on data reported through CDP’s 2022 Climate Change, Forests and Water Security questionnaires, Metsä Board is one of only 12 companies that has achieved a triple ‘A’ – out of nearly 15,000 companies scored.
“The CDP reporting is one of the world’s most comprehensive data- set to report a company’s impacts on climate change, water use and forestry operations. For Metsä Board scoring high in CDP is a good tool to demonstrate the responsibility and transparency of our operations to our customers. And as many of our cus- tomers also themselves participate in the CDP reporting, they under- stand the value of the information reported,” says Anne Uusitalo , Direc- tor, Product Safety & Sustainability of Metsä Board.
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