The EU has finally finalized a provisional agreement on end-of-life vehicle regulations, initially agreeing that the target for the content of recycled materials in new cars is 15%.

China-EU Symposium on Green Design Policies for Plastic Products Held in Beijing

The comprehensive operating index of domestic recycled plastic enterprises in November 2025 was 49%, which decreased compared with that in October.

Europe's Plastic Recycling Industry Plunges into Historic Recession: Annual Capacity Drops by 1 Million Tonnes in Three Years, Facility Closures Surge by 50% Soaring costs and the impact of low-cost imports have severely hit major categories such as PET, endangering the EU's circular economy goals. The industry has urgently called for policy intervention, demanding fair market rules and support for energy costs.

Recently, the top international academic journal *Nature Sustainability* published a "correspondence article" titled "Plastic Disposal: A Critical Climate Decision". The article clearly points out that with the breakdown of global plastic treaty negotiations, countries around the world are facing a neglected climate crisis: the final disposal methods of plastics (landfilling, incineration, or recycling) constitute a significant climate decision, yet their carbon emissions have never been formally included in national climate commitments. The article warns that this policy blind spot is putting global climate goals at serious risk.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice on Further Accelerating the Systematic Layout and High-Level Construction of Manufacturing Pilot Test Platforms", and simultaneously released the "Guidelines for the Construction of Manufacturing Pilot Test Platforms (2025 Edition)" and the "Key Points for the Construction of Key Directions of Manufacturing Pilot Test Platforms (2025 Edition)". The policy proposes that by the end of 2027, the strength of high-level pilot test platforms will be further enhanced, a modern pilot test platform system will be basically established, and a national manufacturing pilot test service network with multi-subject participation, multi-field layout, and multi-level services will be formed.

Major breakthrough! China has successfully produced "virgin-grade" polypropylene from 200,000 tons of mixed waste plastics

Beverage bottles return to beverage bottles: rPET helps create a new vision of green recycling

Looking at the development of the global chemical recycling industry for waste plastics, countries and regions such as the European Union, the United States, Japan, and South Korea are relatively advanced. Many projects have been launched there, and some have been operating stably for many years. In recent years, some countries and regions have issued relevant policies and standards to promote the sustainable development of their local chemical recycling industry for waste plastics.