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Europe currently demands around 20 million tonnes of plastic for packaging
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Created 30 Nov 2022
Published 19 Jan 2023
Last modified 19 Jan 2023
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The figure shows the change in plastics demand for packaging in Europe
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Methodology:
The chart was prepared based on data reported by Plastics Europe, in their individual yearly brochures of “Plastics – the facts” for the years 2012 to 2020:We used two datasets reported therein: the reported total European plastics (converter) demand (in million tonnes) and the fraction (%) attributed to packaging and we calculated the corresponding annual volume converted to packaging (in million tonnes).
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million tonnes
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- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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- Graph
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2012-2020
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/europe-currently-demands-around-20 or scan the QR code.
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