Joint letter: Sector renews six strategic recommendations to strengthen competitiveness, circularity and investment

Executive Summary: Circular Economy Act as Europe’s new competitiveness strategy and its implications for plastics

High-level stakeholder event organised by PubAffairs Bruxelles in partnership with Plastics Europe

Europe cannot deliver a circular plastics economy without enabling innovation

How innovation in technologies demonstrates the need to modernise Europe’s recycling framework

Making the Waste Shipment Regulation Work for EU Circular Economy

The Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) is a key instrument for supporting the EU’s circular economy objectives and for integrating recycling into European supply chains. To unlock its full potential, the WSR requires an enabling framework for intra-EU shipments of recyclable plastics that diverts valuable materials away from incineration and landfill, improves access to specialised recycling capacity, and supports investment in innovative recycling technologies

Joint Declaration for a Bold FP10:Investing in Research, Development and Innovation to Boost European Productivity and Competitiveness

Plastics Europe’s reaction to the End-of-life vehicles Regulation plenary vote

[Brussels, 18 June 2026]

Dramatic slowdown in Europe’s transition to a circular plastics system

Rebooting Circular Plastics in Europe: A Call for Urgent Action and Competitiveness

European plastics value chain, represented by European Plastics Converters, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and Plastics Europe, welcomes the relaunch of the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) as a critical opportunity to get Europe’s plastics circularity ambitions back on track. At a time of growing pressure on the sector, renewed political focus from the European Commission and Member States must now translate rapidly into concrete action. We hope that the high-level meeting taking place today will be an important step towards that.

Plastics Europe’s reaction to the European Commission’s Industrial Accelerator Act proposal

The following statement can be attributed to Virginia Janssens, Managing Director at Plastics Europe:

Cefic, and its value chain partners Fertilizers Europe and Plastics Europe, call on the European Commission to publish the Industrial Accelerator Act without delay

Europe and its industry cannot afford hesitation. Investments are already moving elsewhere, and site closures and job losses are accelerating across manufacturing sectors. This is a decisive moment: Europe must move from diagnosis to delivery – not next year, not next week, but today. Industry urgently needs concrete, predictable actions.

SUPD vote confirms chemical recycling’s contribution in delivering circularity

“Plastics Europe takes note of the Member States’ vote to include chemical recycling under the recycled content rules of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). The decision reinforces the need for a technology-neutral approach and aligns with the Commission’s recognition of chemical recycling as an essential complement to other recycling technologies, such as mechanical recycling, in meeting recycled content targets.

Europe’s Strategic Autonomy and Economic Security at Risk: Securing Critical Plastics Production, Innovation and Circularity in Europe