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The EU policy for a plastic economy: Reflections on a sectoral implementation strategy
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Researchers surveyed 1,783 European farmers about their plastic waste management preferences, finding that the majority produce plastic waste primarily from piping and packaging and favor tax credits over subsidies or extended producer responsibility schemes as the most acceptable policy tool for incentivizing better disposal practices.
Abstract After reviewing the main EU policy documents on the plastic waste issue, this work conceptualises an analysis framework to investigate farmers' attitudes to market‐based tools (i.e., subsidies, tax‐credits, and payback mechanisms in extended producer responsibility schemes) through which the introduction of an operational scheme for a better management of their plastic waste can be incentivised in line with the 2018 European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy. A total number of 1,783 farmers responded to a purpose‐built questionnaire. Results show that most of the plastic waste they produce is piping and packaging and that tax credit represents their most favoured incentivising tool.
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