The Plastic Industry Association (Plastics), Washington, has released a survey that indicates that consumers overwhelmingly support all types of recycling when it comes to plastic products or packaging that should be considered “recyclable” or made from “recycled material", said Reciclingtoday.
Plastics partnered with RG Strategies for the survey, which was conducted from Feb. 22-28 and surveyed 1,200 Americans. According to the survey, about two-thirds of respondents believe that single-use plastics are important to their quality of life.
In addition, the survey indicated that most Americans see both advanced recycling and mechanical recycling as examples of recycling. According to the survey, 90 percent of Americans care more that plastics don’t end up in trash than the process by which they are recycled.
Plastics says it plans to submit these survey findings to the Federal Trade Commission, which is accepting comments on potential changes to its Green Guides, which are intended to provide guidance on how consumers interpret environmental marketing claims.
We remind, more than 120 European packaging industry associations issued a joint letter urging co-legislators to preserve the internal market legal basis of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in its entirety, as the best way to achieve the environmental and economic objectives of the proposal. The internal market legal basis addresses the differences among the various national rules on the management of packaging and packaging waste and resulting internal market barriers, while providing a high level of environmental protection.
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