Recital 15

(15) In line with the waste hierarchy and with life-cycle thinking to deliver the best overall environmental outcome, the measures provided for in this Regulation should aim to reduce the quantity of packaging placed on the market in terms of its volume and weight, to prevent packaging waste from being generated, in particular through packaging minimisation, avoiding packaging where it is not needed and increasing re-use of packaging. In addition, the measures provided for in this Regulation should aim to increase the use of recycled content in packaging, in particular in plastic packaging, where the uptake of recycled content is very low, by strengthening high-quality recycling systems, thereby increasing recycling rates for all packaging and improving the quality of the resulting secondary raw materials while reducing other forms of recovery and final disposal.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-26 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.