36 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2018/2035(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. notes that sustainability would require the reduction of our plastic use to a tenth of current levels;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas for many of the uses of plastic, there exist alternatives to plastic, which include sustainable bio-based materials;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas global annual production of plastics grew from 2 million tons in 1950 to 381 million tons in 2015, and is expected to triple again by 2030; whereas at the same time only 9% of all plastic ever discarded since 1950 has been recycled;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas plastic is not biodegradeable and plastic polymers will remain plastic and cannot be changed through natural processes;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the photodegradation of plastic into micro-plastics has been documented at alarming levels in the environment; whereas micro-plastics generate severe health and environmental problems when they end up in waters, land and air;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas the full impact of plastic waste on flora, fauna and human health is not yet understood; whereas the entry of plastics and toxins, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, used in plastics and printing on plastics into the environment and into the food chain poses a serious threat; whereas the catastrophic consequences on marine life have been documented, with over 100 million marine animals killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. recalls the severe problem posed by micro-plastics in products ranging from cosmetics, textiles, paints, tyres and other materials; recalls that the problem emerges both when micro-plastics are deliberately added to products and when micro-plastics are generated by the degradation of plastic products; Recalls that micro-plastics are an issue that is also linked with weak waste and waste water treatment and management systems;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. notes that 90% of toys on the market are made of plastic and most plastic toys are not recyclable; recalls that the toy industry represents about 18 billion EUR; notes with dismay the perverse trends of packing plastic toys in numerous layers of plastic, most of which is immediately discarded as waste; Recalls that there are companies that have begun making toys from recycled plastic;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas European countries have a history of exporting plastic waste, including to countries where inadequate waste management and recycling systems cause environmental damage and risk the health of local communities, particularly waste handlers;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. notes that the current trends of plastic production, use and management need to be halted immediately; Notes that the measures adopted as a response to the dire situation need to be up to the challenge; Understands that a drastic response is needed to prevent the situation from becoming more desperate;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. believes in the need for an international level agreement and UN Treaty to address the plastics challenge at the global level;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that despite a being welcome and necessary initiative, a ban on single- use plastics is not alone an adequate solution in light of the scale of the problem;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to invest in more systemic planning for the design of production processes where waste from one process and production stream can be efficiently fed as resources into another production process;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop plastic collection and recycling systems from household up, allowing for the collection of different types of plastic and optical sorting to reach highest possible recycling levels and to maintain the quality of the recycled material at its original or at a high level; Calls on Member States to introduce separate collection systems for different types of plastics, including for old plastics, which allow plastic to be returned to its original uses and follow the cascading use principle of plastic materials; Calls for the introduction and use of mandatory deposit systems such as those created for bottles, which allow the quality of plastics to be maintained at approximately the same level from one use to the next;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a total ban on the incineration of plastics;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the integration of recommendations and policy measures adopted in the plastic strategy also into the eco-design directive to ensure that all goods and packaging produced and imported to the EU complies with both legislation;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to ban single-use plastics in packaging;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to make ‘circularity first’ an overarching principle, also for non-packaging plastic items, by developing product standards and revising the eco-design legislative framework; Calls on the resource efficiency principle to be included as a horizontal measure in the Eco-design Directive; Calls on the extension of the Eco-Design Directive to ensure all products are upgradable, reusable, repairable and recyclable;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the extension of the Eco- Design Directive to packaging and to apply producer liability measures to ensure all products are upgradable, reusable, repairable and recyclable;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Amendment 224 #
12a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to allocate more resources to accelerate the development of and to encourage uptake of molecular recycling of plastics;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission to limit the free development of plastic polymers in a way that will efficiently and effectively support the upgradeability, reuse and recycling of plastics;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Calls on the Commission to restrict the range of colours, particularly dark colours, and impurities allowed in plastics to facilitate plastic recyclability;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Believes that potential solutions offered by molecular recycling should be explored in this context;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on Member States to phase- out all perverse incentives which work against achieving the highest possible levels of plastics recycling, such as the Finnish reward system for car scrapping;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission to ban hazardous composites in printing colours used on plastics;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission to develop transparency tools and to make mandatory product and material passports which contain comprehensive information about the product source and previous use, its chemical composition, and health and environmental risks associated with the intended use of the product and its post-use treatment channels, to facilitate the uptake of reusable or recyclable products, including those containing recycled content;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a schedule which will lead to first the restriction and then the complete phase out of plastic in children’s toys;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Strongly supports the Commission in coming forward with clear harmonised rules on both bio-based content and biodegradability in order to tackle existing misconceptions and misunderstandings about bio-plastics; Believes that in food packaging only bio-based, bio-degradable, non-toxic plastics that contain no harmful chemical substances, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, should be allowed onto the market;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Commission to prevent the entering of microplastics from synthetic textiles into ecosystems by advancing research and requirements for effective waste water management and treatment;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31b. Calls on the Commission to take measures to prevent leaking of micro- plastics, generated as a result of tyres, into water sources next to roads, and to increase research in to whether and how plastics in tyres could be replaced or how generation of micro-plastics from tyres could be reduced or eliminated;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Commission to incentivise the urgent substitution of synthetic or other materials in textiles that cause micro-plastics with bio-based and fully recyclable materials;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to invest in and incentivise the development of alternative bio-based, non-toxic materials free of endocrine disrupting chemicals to replace plastic;
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Calls for EU policy coherence and increased investment into relevant actions also outside the EU, such as plastic waste ocean clean-up and the development of waste management systems in developing countries, to achieve maximum impact of Europe’s plastic strategy;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to show active leadership in and commitment to the urgent negotiation of a UN Treaty on plastics production, management and recycling;