Repak: ‘Plastic use attitudes must change’

Ireland’s hopes of achieving new EU targets for plastic recycling will require “a major attitudinal change within society”, similar to the plastic bag tax or the smoking ban.

A report by Repak outlined the scale of the challenge after the European Commission (EC) published its European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy last January, requiring all member states to reuse and recycle 50% of all plastic packaging waste by 2025 and 55% by 2030.