Europe: Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe
PlasticsEurope addresses industrial issues as well as health, safety and environmental aspects of polymers throughout their life cycle via its legislative, environmental, technical and communications programmes. It area of responsibility covers inter alia:
Technical and Environmental - generating information on environmental aspects and industry developments. The Technical and Environmental Centre (TEC) of PlasticsEurope commissions and publishes independent, peer reviewed studies and reports on practical demonstrations made with other stakeholders to assess and optimise the environmental impact of plastic products in the manufacturing, use and recovery phases of their lifetime.
TEC also quantifies the positive contribution plastics are making to the goals of sustainable development and publishes annual data on the consumption and recovery of plastics used in the main application sector of packaging, building and construction, automotive and electric and electronic.
