Europe currently demands around 20 million tonnes of plastic for packaging

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

Europe currently demands around 20 million tonnes of plastic for packaging

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