Important words on recycling

Entrepreneurs appeal to the ministers of development and climate on Extended Producer Responsibility. They call for the introduction to the system of mechanisms effectively forcing an increase in the levels of collection and recycling - informs in a Thursday message the Union of Employers and Entrepreneurs.

As indicated by the organization, observing the ongoing debate on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), one can get the impression that it focuses only on financial issues. Meanwhile, the core of ROP is a set of activities aimed at achieving environmental goals, derived from the closed-loop economy and related to the European Green Deal, including recycling goals – assessed ZPP in an appeal addressed to the Minister of Development, Labour and Technology, and the Minister of Climate and Environment.

The association added that the real payer in the ROP system is not the one introducing packaged products, but the consumer and the real beneficiary of the whole system is not the municipality or the recycler, but the society and the environment.

It was pointed out that only looking through the prism of the right target and the real beneficiary will make it possible to generate and implement rules that constitute a new comprehensive and effective ROP model. “Systemic solutions harmonizing definitions, ordering the market, imposing real responsibility on the introducers allowing a real impact on the system and worked out in dialogue with the industry, can translate into achieving the goals set by the European Commission,”  the organization stated.

(money.pl)