Survey of European and National Legislation on Circular Plastics Economy
摘要
The increase in the consumption of plastics and the accompanying demand is largely due to the needs of the ever-growing world population and poses obvious challenges to the global economy. At the same time, the volume of waste is growing, and waste treatment processes are not a sustainable solution for waste disposal due to emissions into the environment. Therefore, legislation at EU and national level is trying to strengthen waste prevention as well as waste recovery, by recycling the valuable materials contained in the waste and reintroducing them into the product or economic cycle, which in turn is in line with the core idea of circular economy and is intended to prevent plastics from entering the environment.