The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) and partners have issued a new report: Plastics Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda in a Circular Economy.
In response to the European Plastics Strategy, the report identifies the challenges to plastics circularity and defines the types of solutions needed to address them.
According to the research future research is required in three main areas, which include circularity by design, recycling and alternative feedstock.
The analysis from this report aims to help to identify priorities, projects and the level of investment needed to achieve the full circularity of plastics.
SusChem and its partners, Cefic, PlasticsEurope, European Plastics Converters (EuPC) and the European Composites, Plastics and Polymer Processing Platform (ECP4), will use this report as their main input to the EU innovation policy on the circularity of plastics.
The company hopes this document will inspire more collaborative projects as well as the EU and member states support for the implementation of the proposed solutions.
Dr. Markus Steilemann, SusChem Chairman, said: “The Plastics industry is committed to increasing the resource efficiency of its production processes and is facing the challenge of closing the circularity loop. The new Research and Innovation Agenda gives a fresh impetus to the strongest way to drive progress along plastics value chains through collaboration.”
