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Valipac aims to encourage more SMEs to sustainably manage commercial packaging waste with new incentives
Valipac, which coordinates the collection and recycling of commercial and industrial packaging waste, is launching a new incentive system targeting SMEs and smaller organisations. With targeted incentives, Valipac wants to motivate this target group to sort and sustainably recycle their commercial and industrial packaging waste. After all, there is still an important potential of companies…
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Thirty years of the blue bag: comfort for citizens as a priority
The first blue bags appeared on the streets of Belgium in 1994. Thirty years later, they are more relevant than ever before. Moreover, the daily sorting efforts put in by every citizen form the foundation of a successful circular economy. In 2023 Fost Plus collected 24,4 kg of PMD per person. That is an increase…
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New European rules on export of plastic waste threaten crisis for industry
Belgium must urgently prepare for ban on exporting to non-OECD countries Valipac, the EPR-organisation for commercial and industrial (C&I) packaging, has issued a warning about the significant consequences of new EU environmental legislation. The recently approved European Waste Shipment Regulation will ban the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries. There is a genuine risk…