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Briefing

The role of plastics in Europe’s circular economy

Briefing Published 18 Jun 2024 Last modified 23 Jul 2024
17 min read
Photo: © Cesare Barillà, ZeroWaste PIX / EEA
Plastics are essential in society. Yet value chains are unsustainable — generating emissions and increasing waste and pollution. Reducing such impacts demands moving towards a circular and sustainable plastics system. This briefing covers plastics production and consumption in Europe, the impacts on the environment and climate change, and how we can shift to a circular economy for plastics. Work from the Circularity Metrics Lab on plastics (EEA, 2024a) and a report on the Circularity Metrics Lab for Plastics from the European Topic Centre on Circular Economy and Resource Use inform this briefing.
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