BPF urge companies to respond to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Plastic Waste in the Environment

On opening the ICIS 'PET Value Chain: Unlocking the Potential' conference in Amsterdam yesterday, the chair Peter Davis Director General of the British Plastics Federation, mentioned to the 80 delegates that the European Commission last week published a Green Paper on Plastic Waste in the Environment. 

He said to the delegates, “This is an important development highlighting negatively as it does used plastics impact on the environment and alleged risk to health.  We would also say this could affect our competitiveness against other materials”. 

Peter Davis urged all companies to respond to the consultation by the 7th June.  He said, “It’s very important your companies, guided by your Trade Associations respond individually so that our voice is heard loud and clear”. 

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Notes to Editor:

1. ICIS PET Value Chain: Unlocking the Potential, Thursday 14th – 15th March 2013, Movenpick Amsterdam City Centre, The Netherlands

2. British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.