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Topical subjects<br />
Attualità<br />
The uncertain future of<br />
plastics in Europe<br />
L’incerto futuro delle<br />
plastiche in Europa<br />
Luca Landoni<br />
I<br />
t is now well known globally that the<br />
most stringent and rigorous legislation,<br />
especially in terms of environmental<br />
protection and human health, are those in force<br />
in the European Union. These regulations,<br />
which are constantly evolving, have the main<br />
objective of reducing as much as possible<br />
the presence of certain extremely worrying<br />
substances, both in industrial use and in terms<br />
of their presence in products intended for<br />
consumers. It is precisely in this context that the<br />
‘European Chemicals Strategy for a Sustainable<br />
Environment Free of Toxic Substances’ and,<br />
above all, the ‘Restrictions Roadmap under<br />
the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability’<br />
(published at the end of April 2022 by the<br />
European Commission and nicknamed ‘Great<br />
Detox’ by the European Environmental Bureau,<br />
EEB), fit in. Through the two policy documents,<br />
the Commission intends to outline in detail<br />
what will be the roadmap according to which,<br />
by 2030, technical-scientific assessments must<br />
be conducted in order to implement possible<br />
restrictive measures on entire groups of<br />
substances deemed critical. According to EEB<br />
assessments, some 7,000 substances could fall<br />
under the restrictive measures advocated by<br />
the Commission, while according to CEFIC<br />
(European Chemical Industry Council) the<br />
measures could instead cover as many as<br />
12,000 substances.<br />
Among the compounds that could become the<br />
subject of a possible restrictive measure are<br />
polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its additives, as<br />
well as the so-called PFAS or perfluoroalkyl<br />
Èormai noto a livello globale come le<br />
legislazioni maggiormente stringenti e<br />
rigorose, soprattutto in materia di tutela<br />
ambientale e della salute umana, siano quelle<br />
vigenti nell’Unione europea. Tali discipline,<br />
peraltro in continua e costante evoluzione, hanno<br />
come obiettivo principale quello di ridurre il più<br />
possibile la presenza di determinate sostanze<br />
particolarmente preoccupanti, sia in fase di impiego<br />
industriale, sia in termini di presenza nei prodotti<br />
destinati ai consumatori. Proprio in questo contesto<br />
si inseriscono la ‘Strategia europea in materia di<br />
sostanze chimiche per un ambiente sostenibile<br />
e privo di sostanze tossiche’ e soprattutto la<br />
‘Restrictions Roadmap under the Chemicals<br />
Strategy for Sustainability’ (pubblicata a fine aprile<br />
2022 dalla Commissione europea e soprannominata<br />
‘Great Detox’ dall’European Environmental<br />
Bureau, EEB). Tramite i due documenti<br />
programmatici la Commissione intende infatti<br />
delineare con precisione quella che sarà la tabella<br />
di marcia secondo cui, entro il 2030, dovranno<br />
essere condotte le valutazioni tecnico-scientifiche<br />
volte ad attuare possibili misure restrittive su<br />
interi gruppi di sostanze ritenute critiche. Secondo<br />
valutazioni dell’EEB sono circa 7.000 le sostanze<br />
che potrebbero rientrare sotto le misure restrittive<br />
auspicate dalla Commissione, mentre secondo<br />
CEFIC (Consiglio Europeo delle Federazioni<br />
dell’Industria Chimica) le misure potrebbero invece<br />
riguardare anche 12.000 sostanze.<br />
Tra i composti che potrebbero divenire oggetto<br />
di una possibile misura restrittiva figurano in<br />
particolare il PVC (polivinilcloruro o cloruro di<br />
polivinile) e suoi additivi, nonché i cosiddetti<br />
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