The packaging industry is a large and important sector in Europe that provides products to many other economic operators and the future of its companies, and their workforce needs to be safeguarded. A strong Regulation should support harmonised packaging design and recycling requirements in Europe to secure a well-functioning internal market and to ease the compliance work of economic operators. It should also not ignore the primary purpose and function of packaging, which is to protect products.<\/p>\n
Printing is a crucial component of most packaging. Printing will be an important aspect to consider when defining design for recycling criteria for packaging. While it is important to define design for recycling criteria for packaging, it is equally important to address the end-of-life phase of the packaging material and therefore incentivise separate collection, sorting and state-of-the-art deinking and recycling processes.<\/p>\n
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