An EC committee is to meet to consider a request for an extension to a Packaging Directive deadline that glass producers believe threatens the future of glass recycling. The deadline in question refers to the concentration of 4 heavy metals in packaging, & states that a limit of 100/ppm must be achieved by June/06. The Commission's Scientific Progress Committee is meeting on Feb/2 to consider a request to extend this deadline from FEVE. In a letter to the EC commissioner, FEVE said producers are still exceeding the limit for the amount of lead in their container glass "solely from the use of recycled materials". On average, EU Member States are now recycling about 60% of their glass packaging waste, & with the recycling targets demanded by the Directive, this recycling performance needs to continue. FEVE are asking the deadline to be put back beyond 2015.
