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Preventing plastic waste in Europe

Publication Created 03 May 2019 Published 03 Jun 2019

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A report reviewing waste prevention policies in Europe with a focus on how these policies approach the issue of plastics and plastic waste.

Publication Created 03 May 2019 Published 03 Jun 2019

Topics: Resource efficiency and waste ,

EEA Report No 2/2019

A report reviewing waste prevention policies in Europe with a focus on how these policies approach the issue of plastics and plastic waste.

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Prevention is crucial to tackling plastic waste crisis Plastic waste remains a huge and growing problem. But what is the European Union doing to address the issue? Ioannis Bakas, the EEA’s waste prevention expert gives a brief overview of the EEA’s report on preventing plastic waste in Europe, which was published earlier this month.

What are European countries doing to tackle plastic waste? Despite some promising efforts to address the growing problem of plastic waste like banning plastic shopping bags or straws, specific prevention targets for different plastic waste are still not widespread in Europe, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment published today. Only nine countries have explicit targets in place for plastic waste prevention.

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Waste prevention in Europe The Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) set a legal obligation for European Union (EU) Member States to adopt waste prevention programmes by 12 December 2013. The European Environment Agency (EEA) was invited to carry out an annual review of the progress made towards the ‘completion and implementation of the programmes’, the first of which was completed for 2013. The publications and individual fact sheets found here are part of a series of reviews of waste prevention programmes in Europe. The review process covers programmes in the 28 EU Member States and the three European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, namely Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

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25 Jun 2018 - Waste prevention in Europe: policies, status and trends in 2017

16 Dec 2016 - Prevention of hazardous waste in Europe — the status in 2015

07 Dec 2015 - Waste prevention in Europe — the status in 2014

17 Dec 2014 - Waste prevention in Europe - the status in 2013

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Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , United Kingdom

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