News Category: EU Waste Legislation and Guidance
Packaging Clarification
14 January 2010
The European Commission plans to provide more extensive guidelines as to what constitutes packaging and what does not for the purposes of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive.
The Commission is considering expanding the list of what constitutes packaging to include items such as coat hangers sold with clothes, cosmetic applicators sold with make-up and rolls, tubes and cylinders around which flexible material such as plastic film is wrapped. This is in a bid to provide more thorough guidance in areas where difficulties might arise.
The “Packaging Waste Directive” is available here:
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file34191.pdf
The proposed list of “packaging” items is available here:
http://www.letsrecycle.com/resources/doc/news/2010/Packaging_list_-_proposed_additional_items.doc
Further information is available here:
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=54289§ion=packaging | 
