Waste management and Circular economy / sustainable production and consumption

Recovery plan: Investments for reusing and recycling
Two activities will be supported:
1. Reusing and reducing the use of plastic, especially single-use plastic: financial aid will target the packaging industry (for R&D investment in alternatives to single-use plastic), repair centres, equipments that can substitue to the use of plastic, pilot projects in health facilities in switching from single-use plastic;
2. Recycling plastic: financial aid will target studies on the incorporation of recycled plastic, investment in adaptation of equipments in order to integrate more recycled plastic, etc.
Support will come from an existing fund endowed with an extra €226m in 2020-2022.

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