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In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (COM(2018) 28 final), which in the set of implementing measures also includes actions aimed at better understanding the life-cycle impacts of the use of alternative feedstocks for plastics production (see Annex I of the Strategy). In this context, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been entrusted by the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) with a project focusing on Life Cycle Assessment of plastic products from alternative feedstocks , as described in this webpage. |
Objectives and expected outcome
The overall objective of the project is to:
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As main output, the project is expected to provide interested companies and stakeholders with a common harmonised framework to evaluate and communicate the potential environmental impacts of plastic products relying on different feedstocks.
Main steps and status
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During the two consultations, interested stakeholders were invited to provide comments and inputs to the submitted draft reports. Moreover, stakeholders were given the opportunity to provide relevant data and information for the development of the project during two separate calls for data, which took place during summer 2018 and spring 2019.
Received comments are currently taken into account by JRC to revise and update the project reports as appropriate. Availability of final reports will be communicated on this webpage, as soon as available.
Publications and dissemination