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Europe currently demands around 20 million tonnes of plastic for packaging
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Plastic converter demand for packaging in Europe (27 EU Member States (EU-27) and the UK, Norway and Switzerland, except for 2012 and 2013, when data refer to the EU-27 and Norway and Switzerland). The chart exclusively refers to plastics from virgin resins and not recycled plastics.
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- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
2012-2020
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).