Episode 1038: PODCAST: Regulation EU 2022/1616 impact on R-PET

ICIS Senior Analyst, Plastics Recycling Helen McGeough talks to Senior Editor, Recycling, Matt Tudball about European Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 on recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods in relation to the European recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) market. The regulation sets out a series of deadlines by which certain packaging technologies or processes need to be registered with the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) by. The discussion focuses on some potential consequences for those companies who have missed, or were not aware of those deadlines, and what that might mean for the use of R-PET in certain types of food packaging going forward.