The European legal framework for packaging products is mainly based on the “Packaging Directive (94/62/EC) and to a lesser extent, on the “Waste Framework Directive” (2006/12/EC). The Packaging Directive has played an important role in developing efficient recycling and recovery schemes throughout Europe and paving the way towards an internal market for packaging and packaging waste in the European Union.
APEAL encourages the European institutions to :
- acknowledge the long term and global benefits of the continuous recycling of steel, which
makes fundamental contribution to both waste prevention and sustainable resource use; - focus on integrated waste management systems to reach optimal recycling solutions,
ensuring that society as a whole takes responsibility through the implementation of a
national waste management strategy; - recognise the environmental benefits of “material to material” or “true” recycling and how
this is different from “downcycling” and other recovery operations