- BRUSSELS - With 56 votes in favour, 23 against and 5 abstentions, the European Parliament's Environment Committee has approved the report on the reduction of packaging waste. The text will have to be examined by the November plenary. The alternative amendments signed by the EPP and ECR, which would have cancelled the reuse and refill targets and cancelled the bans on single-use packaging, did not pass by a handful of votes.
However, the text adopted is not a green light for unconditional reuse. Reusable packaging should meet a number of criteria, including a minimum number of times it can be reused (to be defined at a later stage). Beverage and takeaway vending machines in the restaurant industry must offer consumers the opportunity to bring their own container. MEPs also want to ban the use of substances such as PFAS and bisphenol A in food contact packaging.
Wine is the only alcoholic beverage outside the constraints of the reform of the EU legislation on packaging (PPWR) which provides for the redefinition of reuse targets for various packaging materials, including glass.
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