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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognised that EPS transport packaging is recycled in practice and at scale. Ahead of the ongoing fourth round of negotiations on a Global Plastic Pollution Treaty, UNEP updated its so-called 'Plastic pollution science' document. It now states that "only a handful of packaging formats have been demonstrated to be recycled in practice and at scale in specific countries and regions. Those products are PET bottles [...] and EPS for transport packaging (e.g. fish boxes or protection of large items)." This follows the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) earlier this month observing in its 'Plastics Initiative 2024 Recycling Rate Survey Results Summary' that it has added EPS transport packaging as a new, distinct category, which "is considered recyclable in practice and at scale based on the data available". The EPS industry had pointed out such public data. According to the EMF, there is evidence that EPS transport packaging achieves a 30% recycling rate in the EU+3 and Japan. A great achievement of our colleagues focusing on EPS, this recent recognition shows that great care must be applied to base important decisions on accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information. In fact, rigid PS consumer packaging is also already and increasingly separately collected, sorted and recycled across Europe. For example, 67% of PS household packaging waste is sorted for recycling in Germany, according to official reports. Updated UNEP document: https://lnkd.in/ey73JfSY EMF Recycling Rate Survey 2024: https://lnkd.in/e4b2MSJp Global EPS Sustainability Alliance (GESA) on the update: https://lnkd.in/eZP3dApN Comments of the styrenics industry on the original document (with further references): https://lnkd.in/e24gK4EB Examples of further increasing separate collection, sorting and recycling of PS, including in France: https://lnkd.in/esKWFpdb PS 'recycling rate' in Germany (cf. p. 85): https://lnkd.in/e6Un-v4n