The strategy for plastics was adopted in 2018 as part of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan. Its aim is to increase the proportion of recycled plastics in new products. A key element is to ensure that ten million tons of recycled plastics are used in new products on the European market by 2025, compared to less than four million tons in 2016.
The INCREACE project aims to increase the use of recycled plastics in various products along the recycling value chain. With the use of plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), the project addresses areas in which the use of recycled plastic materials is still marginal today. The project focuses on five use cases that cover complex aspects such as food contact, medical applications, electrostatic discharge (ESD) and flammability standards and high-tech plastic components in electrical and electronic equipment. Technologies and methods from the different disciplines are combined to demonstrate that targeted measures along the entire value chain are an effective solution for using more post-consumer plastics in EEE.
